Aimhigher South East Region The Healthcare Strand

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Aimhigher South East RegionThe Healthcare Strand

• Joint initiative HEFCE and Department of Health
• Confirmed funding to 2008

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Objectives

• To map and develop progression routes
• To develop interventions to allow
  underrepresented groups to progress into Health
  and Care
• Provide opportunities to develop existing
  workforce
• Priority areas- Radiography, Biomedical Science,
  Allied Health Professionals

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The higher skills challenge

• By 2020 40 of jobs will require graduate skills
  (currently 30)
• An additional 3.5 million graduates or equivalent
  needed by 2020
• This is equivalent to a participation rate of 65
  for 18-30 year olds.
• Uk 24TH out of 29 developed countries for post-16
  staying on rates in school.

Leitch review of skills interim report 2005
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Projected change in age groups 2004-2020
Government Actuarys Department
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Health workforce in the South East of England

• Total in employment in the South East of England
• (JunAug 2005 Labour Survey) 4,058,000
• 256,410 work in the Health Sector.
• Health is 6.3 of the total workforce in the
  South East of England .

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Health Sector Workforce in Greater SE

• SE 261,824
• London 250,000
• East 176,000
• Total 687,824

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NHS, Independent Voluntary
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The next 10 Years

• Assume-
• 7 turnover
• 6.5 retirements
• 1.5 growth
• 15.0 X 687,824 X 10 years 1,031,736 staff to
  be replaced

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Demand for Care
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And yet more demand stacking up behind ......

• Physical inactivity represents 8.2bn per annum
  (including 72,000 last working days and 86,000
  premature deaths)
• Obesity loses ( largely through days of sickness
  relating to obesity) a further 3.5bn per annum
• The loss from mental illness is even greater and
  is estimated across England to be 23.1bn per
  annum

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Widen participation

• Get and keep good recruits
• Widen sources of recruitment by offering
  satisfying careers
• Retain staff within the sector by offering
  satisfying careers training.
• Respond to new demands for healthcare by creating
  new effective teams
• Create new flexible teams containing new roles to
  meet new demands
• Create more productive teams that can work more
  smartly and productively .

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Widen participation the under represented
groups
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Widen participation inside the health sector
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Make career pathways work
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Regional comparison of recruitment of
under-represented groups into higher education.

• London
• South East
• North East
• East
• Scotland
• Wales

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Healthcare Strand in SEast

• Thames Valley
• Hampshire Isle of Wight
• Surrey Sussex
• Kent Medway

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• How does the work of the Healthcare Strand impact
  on your role?
• How does your role impact on the work of the
  Healthcare Strand?