Understand your future labour needs and local labour market

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High quality research and intelligence help you make an informed decisions about your skills and workforce needs.

Reliable intelligence is a vital part of the skills and workforce planning and development process. It helps you understand the local, regional, and national picture on skills and labour market trends, and gives you the confidence to make informed planning decisions.

As the Sector Skills Council for health, we produce annual assessments of the current and anticipated skills needs of the health sector in the UK, as well as in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Annual briefings for each English region are also available.

We also adopt a range of creative approaches to understanding current and anticipated skills needs, including an annual cycle of seminars and networking events. Bespoke research can also be commissioned to your own specification.

Our products and services are suitable for a wide range of users including healthcare employers and line managers, regional development agencies, strategic health authorities, education commissioners and careers advisors.

They include:

  • ‘Baseline’ reports profiling health sector skills and labour market trends within the UK, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the English regions
  • Themed research to address gaps in workforce knowledge and promote new ways of delivering healthcare
  • An online intelligence tool with allowing you to interrogate statistics on health sector employment, skills, labour demand, training and demographics
  • Future-oriented reports and seminars exploring creative approaches to emerging healthcare workforce issues
  • Bespoke searches and reports on specific themes relevant to you as an employer.

To discuss this service, please contact us.



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