Healthcare Workforce Planning

Running head: HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE PLANNING
Healthcare Workforce Planning
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Executive Summary
Ghana has acknowledged the need to address its severe shortage of health workers and resultant
healthcare service deliverance issues. The purpose of the report is to prepare a new strategic
human resources plan to guide the improvement of heath workforce and associated workers
number and service quality by 2030 from the current standard of health workforce as per WHO
African observatory health forecast results in 2014. Adequate funding, cross-country workforce
migration, improvement of education has been found the most effective strategy of healthcare
improvement.

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Table of Content
1. Introduction:................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Background and rationale:.....................................................................................................3
1.2 Purpose:.................................................................................................................................3
2 Environmental scan......................................................................................................................4
2.1 Current progress in policies and intervention........................................................................4
2.2 Data comparison and profiling..............................................................................................5
2.3 Critical issues.......................................................................................................................10
3 Framework and Strategies..........................................................................................................11
4 Recommendations.......................................................................................................................14
References:....................................................................................................................................17

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1. Introduction:
1.1 Background and rationale:
According to the global statistics report 2015, Ghana is one of the low to Middle Eastern
countries, which has very less amount of improvement in healthcare in past 5 years. Ghana's
Republic is legally segregated intro different 10 regions, which are further divided into a total of
138 districts and that has been increased recently to 170. The government of Ghana has
acknowledged the need to address its severe shortage of health workers and consequent health
service delivery issues (World Health Organization., 2015). The Ministry of Health considering
all the private maternity healthcare homes owns approximately 20% of the health facilities across
Ghana. Other private sector facilities are owned by a Ghana Christian Health Association. The
Ministry of Health is the Ghana Health Service. A review of the 2004 strategy highlighted some
serious causes behind the low workforce engagement and workforce empowerment in Ghana,
such as morale, poor distribution, higher wage costs, high attrition, and others. Health human
resources are a priority in the development of the general health system (World Health
Organization, 2016). At the same, it is unclear that in spite of a increasing number of health
workers are being educated and trained, the overall increase of health workforce is not adequate
to assess, treat and provide healthcare facilities to the increasing number of unhealthy
population while prioritising the health accessibility, health equity, service quality and
facilitation amount. In the field of infrastructure, logistic and educational staff or funding the
capability of health training organisations for training enough numbers in order to meet national
level requirements, was not adequate (Moh.gov.gh., 2016).
1.2 Purpose: