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Table 5 The Pharmaceutical Workforce Development Goals description

From: National assessment of pharmaceutical workforce and education using the International Pharmaceutical Federation’s global development goals: a case study of Qatar

Cluster

DG[w]

DG[w] general description

Academy Focus on the schools, universities and education providers

1. Academic capacity

Foundation training infrastructures in place for the early post-registration (post-licensing) years of the pharmaceutical workforce as a basis for consolidating initial education and training and progressing the novice workforce towards advanced practice

2. Foundation training and early career development

3. Quality assurance

Transparent, contemporary and innovative processes for the quality assurance of needs-based education and training systems

Professional development Focus on the pharmaceutical workforce

4. Advanced and specialist expert development

Education and training infrastructures in place for the recognized advancement of the pharmaceutical workforce as a basis for enhancing patient care and health system deliverables

5. Competency development

Clear and accessible developmental frameworks describing competencies and scope of practice for all stages of professional careers. This should include leadership development frameworks for the pharmaceutical workforce

6. Leadership development

Strategies and programs in place that develop professional leadership skills (including clinical and executive leadership) for all stages of career development, including pharmaceutical sciences and initial education and training

7. Service provision and workforce education and training

A patient-centered and integrated health services foundation for workforce development, relevant to social determinants of health and needs-based approaches to workforce development

8. Working with others in the healthcare team

Clearly identifiable elements of collaborative working and interprofessional education and training which should be a feature of all workforce development programs and policies

Systems Focus on policy development, governmental strategy and planning, and monitoring systems

9. Continuing professional development strategies

All professional development activity clearly linked with needs-based health policy initiatives and pharmaceutical career development pathways

10. Pharmaceutical workforce gender and diversity balances

Clear strategies for addressing gender and diversity inequalities in pharmaceutical workforce development, continued education and training, and career progression opportunities

11. Workforce impact and effect on health improvement

Evidence of the impact of the pharmaceutical workforce within health systems and health improvement

12. Workforce intelligence

A national strategy and corresponding actions to collate and share workforce data and workforce planning activities (skill mixes, advanced and specialist practice, capacity). Without workforce intelligence data there can be no strategic workforce development

13. Workforce policy formation

Clear and manageable strategies to Implement comprehensive needs-based Development of the pharmaceutical workforce from initial education and training through to advanced practice