NHS Fife has published its Workforce Strategy for 2019-22.

The Scottish Government requires NHS Fife, like other NHS Boards, to undergo significant transformational change to deliver its aim of ensuring the people of Scotland would live longer, healthier lives at home or in a homely setting.

NHS Fife established a framework for this transformational change within our Clinical Strategy (2016–2021), shaping the delivery of healthcare in Fife over the next five years and beyond. It sets out NHS Fife’s response to the changing needs of a rising and ageing population, focusing on prevention of ill health, optimal use of technology, and developing the skills and competencies of the workforce to ensure they keep pace with the new and evolving models of care required.

This demographic change in society is also reflected in NHS Fife’s workforce. Our workforce is ageing at a time when the working population of Fife is projected to decrease. Workforce supply and demand will be a key challenge over the coming years with the prospect that the future supply of Doctors, General Practitioners, Nurses and Midwives and other health professional roles may be insufficient to meet future demand.

It is in this context that this Workforce Strategy has been developed. Recognising the high quality services which are delivered by hard working people, who are responding to changing demand, evolving models of care and rising public expectations, the Workforce Strategy outlines the steps that NHS Fife will take nationally, regionally and locally to ensure service sustainability.

The Workforce Strategy is a live and interactive document, regularly monitored and updated by the Strategic Workforce Planning Group and will facilitate NHS Fife’s workforce to continue to deliver high quality services. This Strategy covers all NHS Fife staff, including those who work in Fife’s Health & Social Care Partnership.
 

You can download a copy of the strategy here.