Workforce Innovation Group (WING)
The Workforce Innovation Group (WING) is a research group within the Research Centre of Health and Wellbeing. This group is led by Dr Adéle Stewart-Lord and Prof Alison Leary. Research in this group focusses on workforce evaluations, research and workforce modelling.
Effective healthcare workforce planning is vital to ensure appropriate levels and skills of staff are available to deliver safe, high-quality care to patients and service users.
Our research has developed a detailed understanding of work that enables the building of models around the impact of staffing levels on patient outcomes; workload activity in complex areas; and contribution that specialist roles make. Our research has influenced national policy in safety and care standards, with key impacts.
Examples include:
- Using data science to help organisations make informed decisions
- Researching the interface between workforce and safety
- Helping organisations build humanistic workforce models
- Evaluations of complex systems
- Informing policy
Get involved
If you are interested in the work we are doing or want to join our group, please contact Dr Adéle Stewart-Lord.
Recent projects include:
- Value of therapeutic Nursing and a Workforce Intelligence Network for rural and coastal communities with UEA (NICHE)
- Whole systems modelling and wellbeing evaluation (British Society for Haematology).
- HSC_Professional Framework for Nurses_Prostate Cancer UK
- Realist evaluation of end-of-life care model SWAN
- Demand modelling for new roles in East of England
Previous work included:
- Policy changes in community nursing (Investment by Health Education England (HEE) now NHS England into District Nursing, Changes in ARRS in General Practice)
- Changes in safety in English League Football
- Policy impact in human resources in WHO “small countries” programme
- Modeled “enhanced practice” for HEE leading to investment in the Enhanced Practice workforce and apprenticeship and national policy
- SWAN End of life model evaluation
- Alison Leary - Professor of Modelling; Senior Consultant at the World Health Organisation, Human Resources for Health
- Queen Nursing Institute
- British Society for Haematology
- British Society of Echocardiography