Working Group 2: Workforce shortages - Managing an

ageing workforce

TCN Inaugural Meeting

Human Resource Management in times of multifaceted crisis

Budapest, 2009 May 18

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Global Shortages of HRH professionalsSource: Working together for health, WHO Report 2006

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Strategies for improvement Dutch strategies to deal with labour-market problems in the long term care;

source: presentation of Ina Bakker, Lisbon, 2006; Vilans, Centre of Excellence in long term and Social care, the Netherlands

1 Reduce the need of care– Prevention– Informal care– Technology

2 Improve labour productivity

3 Enlarge the workforce– Getting people in– Keeping them at work (work more!)– Prevent them from leaving– Working until pension***

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Ageing nurses in the USASource: Working together for health, WHO Report 2006

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Age profile, NHS nurses, Scotland, by location of service delivered, September 2007

Source: Older…but wiser?, J. Buchan, F. O’May, D. McCann, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2008

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HRH Age structure Hungary, allied health personnel Source: Hungarian Chamber of Allied Health Personnel, Registry Data

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Age distribution of doctorsSource: Working together for health, WHO Report 2006

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Managing an ageing HC WF

Specific issues in HC? CPD? What kind of workload? Duties? Shifts? Part-time? Responsibility?...

Specific HC relating characteristics? What ageing HC WF means across Europe/ professions? Gender ?...

Specific challenges?

Specific solutions?

Specific advantages?

Specific management?

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Ageing HC WF: Main challenges

• Changes and differences in knowledge/ training (CPD, revalidation – do they help?)

• Tensions between active working generations

• Changing flexibility (Are there flexible working conditions?)

• Increasing „danger/ risks” in many aspects

• Changing physical (and mental?) capacity/ capabilities(How can we improve productivity?)

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Ageing HC WF: Main challenges, cont.

• Different age patterns in different HP groups

• Career paths and its connections with ageing

• Time and resources demanding trainings

• Remuneration issues, cost of replacement

• Etc. …

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Ageing HC WF: Main strengths/ advantages/ options

• Experience, expertise, knowledge, wisdom (professional and overall)

• Training/ teaching/ tutoring of the new generations

• Practice, skills…(how we can effectively capitalize it?)

• Most part of the career has been „done”, decreasing stress

• Etc.

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Possible bullet points for discussion

• Relevance, main HP groups with this problem

• Good practices

• Main obstacles

• Concrete steps

• The role of national and international professional organisations