Transforming The Pharmacy Workforce In North East London
North East London ICS
Background
The NHS Long Term Work Plan urges Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and wider system partners to prioritise actions that drive recruitment and retention of their ‘one workforce’ across health and care to make the local area a better place to live and work, as well as setting out priorities for workforce action in their five-year joint forward plans.
The priorities identified by the NEL Pharmacy workforce transformation group have been aligned to workstreams, with agreed outcomes, to enable realistic achievement in each area. There are dedicated Programme Delivery Lead to enable progression of specific projects for the NEL ICS Pharmacy Workforce Transformation Group.
Project Aims
To strengthen the pharmacy workforce transformation work to improve recruitment, retention and education and training of the pharmacy workforce in NEL ICS including widening participation and access.
Project Objectives
The transformation work has defined key objectives which encompasses the following themes:
Multisector collaboration for placements
Model for Designated Prescribing Practitioners (DPPs)
Training Needs Analysis
Recruitment now and pipeline; promoting pharmacy as a career
Expected Outputs
Deliverables from the 4 workstreams which promotes collaborative working across the system and wider entities in line with national, regional and local priorities for workforce development and transformation.
Build a secure network of stakeholders to promote a more collaborative approach towards workforce development and training.
To build a sustainable workforce model that has the flexible skillset to improve patient care
Project Outputs
Project Leads and Project Team
Name
Dr. Raliat Onatade
Andrea Okoloekwe
Shammi Khatun
Simmy Daniel and Lauren Reber
Organisation
North East London ICB
East London Foundation Trust
Barts Health NHS Trust
North East London ICS
Role
Sponsor
Senior Responsible Officer
Deputy Senior Responsible Officer
Project Team