Workforce Development Funding (March 2023)
Timeline
HEE regional teams are required to submit a return using the Workforce Development Funding Data Collection Tool three times during 2022-23:
- Mid-July: 24th June – 15th July 2022
- Mid-October: 23rd September – 13 October 2022
- Mid-April: 17th March – 14th April 2023
Please ensure to submit this data by the deadline of 14th April 2023 via the eCollection portal.
For further information regarding the collection please review the guidance documentation: Click here
Technical Support
For support to access the HEE e-collection portal, to amend user details, to set up additional users please refer to the guidance and for any other technical enquiries please contact DataService@hee.nhs.uk.
Background
As ICSs become statutory entities from July 2022 and assume responsibility for a number of key deliverables, including the leadership of workforce transformation and new ways of working – HEE has committed to supporting systems achieve better definition and prioritisation of workforce solutions, which enable both more and different.
To support this, for 2022-23, HEE has invested £50m in Workforce Development Funding to be focused on the improvement and transformation of care delivery. This is driven by employer and service intent such as change to the service model. Funding is invested in projects, programmes, education and training that require scale and pace which are sufficient for delivery of change.
This might include for example, Person Centred Coaching to scale personalised care, training in the application of digital technologies to deliver new models of care and project management to spread and adopt best practice initiatives; the focus of the education and training requirement being to move towards a different way of working.
Workforce Development investment should be aligned to the five enablers of workforce transformation as described in the HEE Star (Supply, Up-skilling, New roles, New ways of working and Leadership) to ensure appropriate use of resource, avoid duplication of investment with other funding streams and establish a common understanding of shared workforce priorities.
The reporting framework is aligned to the five key enablers of the HEE Star to facilitate aggregation and analysis at regional and national level – providing improved oversight of economies of scale, gaps in activity and impact/outcomes.