Cluster | DG[w] | DG[w] general description |
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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 |