Workforce Planning: Strengths and Weaknesses in Healthcare System

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Executive Summary
Workforce planning is about analyzing, interpretating the need and requirement of
workforce so that the organization can create balance in demand and supply of workforce. In the
present context, NHS is taken into consideration that is a well-known organization of public
sector. This is a renowned healthcare organization of UK that offers ample of health related
services to the patients across UK. To attain the pre-defined goals, they are adopting workforce
planning strategies. It is analyzed that workforce planning is helpful in minimizing the
recruitment cost, enhancing employee retention, minimizing gaps and more, Further, it is
analyzed that the company will adopt several strategies to address the weakness of workforce
planning. It is found that forecasting the future requirements of workforce is crucial to prepare
significant strategies. This helps in addressing the needs & requirements of employees so that the
company can attain pre-defined goals. Here, forecasting is important in order to minimize the
future uncertainties and accomplish the stipulated goals. In this regard, it is crucial to anticipate
the demand of workforce in future period of time so that the suitable strategies can be prepared
accordingly. It is the another major strengths of workforce planning which is related with
development of workforce. During workforce planning, the company is likely to prepare several
strategies. Here, they arrange necessary training & development programs so that the efficiency
of the employees gets enhanced. Additionally, it is found that main reason of planning is to
minimize the risk & uncertainties. Through the workforce planning, it is possible to minimize the
risk at certain level. However, planning is highly risky process. Planning is based on future
forecast and it is quite complex to make accurate forecast for future. In healthcare setting, it is
the major weakness of workforce planning that it might enhance the future risk. Here, workforce
planning can create an uncertain environment within the healthcare organization that will put a
major impact on the future success of the organization. Workforce planning is an expensive
process as it requires to perform ample of activities in terms of data collection, analysis and
more. Collecting, analyze and evaluate the data needs huge expense. To collect the data, there is
requirement to put huge efforts, time and more that will make the entire process expensive. In
healthcare system, the workforce planning is expensive as the company needs to collect the
necessary data and information. It will make the entire process expensive that will affect the
future success of organization.

Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................5
Main Body...................................................................................................................................................7
Business case for improvements to maximize strengths and addressing the weaknesses.........................7
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................10
References.................................................................................................................................................12