Workforce planning for nurses and midwives

‘Workforce planning for nurses and midwives’ examines the nursing and midwifery workforce within both the Health and Social Care (HSC) and independent care sectors. It reviews whether the workforce is capable of dealing with future challenges and increasing demands on services.

An interactive data tool, providing information on vacancies and agency staff costs across the health trusts, can also be accessed at the following link.

• https://niao-data-analytics.shinyapps.io/Health_workforce_planning/

A video outlining the findings of the report is available from the NIAO Youtube page.

• https://youtu.be/iM53xa9wmic