Implementing the White Paper: The Leadership and Management Challenge in Remodelling the Workforce

Abstract

This article highlights important points raised in a keynote speech delivered at the Guardian's Managing New Realities conference on 22nd March 2006. It draws particularly on the New Types of Worker project created by Skills for Care, and emphasises the need for local leadership to overcome the barriers to collaboration that are likely to prevent emergence of a remodelled workforce in practice, which is seen as central to effective implementation of the White Paper.The article underlines the need for:• a national coherent framework setting out the pathway to realising the visions set out by the White Paper• a local framework to deliver primary social care, with the primary care trusts and local government working as one• a common set of cultural values throughout health and social care• clear and agreed funding arrangements, along with a workforce development programme to keep pace with changing service requirements• public support for change, to achieve a seamless service without the gaps that lead to tragedy.It is through addressing these challenges to primary health and social care that the remodelling of the workforce will come about.

Citation

Hoodless, D. (2006), "Implementing the White Paper: The Leadership and Management Challenge in Remodelling the Workforce", Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. 14 No. 4, pp. 14-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/14769018200600026