Healthy Ambitions - NHS Yorkshire and the Humber

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A number of workforce and education themes run through all or many of the pathway recommendations:

Increasing emphasis on prevention means more staff are needed in public health and in primary and community care with the skills to deliver the health inequalities and well being agenda – e.g. a widespread ability to undertake brief interventions
Additional services provided in primary and community care (such as diagnostics, minor surgery, home births, emergency treatment and choosing to die at home) mean:
- Making the best use of highly skilled staff – using GPs to see more complex cases and making better use of people such as community pharmacists
- Developing new and extended roles for other staff, e.g. assistant practitioners in mental health and audiology, maternity support workers and staff who work across health and social care, and more specialist roles for nurses e.g. in diabetes and asthma care
Better managed care means more dedicated staff to work as care coordinators/care navigators
An increased focus on leadership for staff at all levels. This means we must develop capacity to systematically identify and develop talent, and in particular harness the existing potential of the clinical professions. Alongside local programmes, the SHA is taking steps to develop expertise in:
- Defining leadership needs
- Designing and delivering leadership interventions and/or commissioning leadership development which adds value.