Africa-Press – Seychelles. Local health managers are presently boosting their knowledge on how to have a systematic way to make staffing decisions in order to manage their valuable human resources well, through a five-day training workshop on Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN).
The training, which is taking place at the Coral Strand Hotel – under the auspices of the World Health Organisation (WHO) – was officially launched yesterday by Chief Nursing Officer Dr Guylian Mein and is being facilitated by WHO consultants Edwin Ogendi and Mathew Thuku.
The workshop represents the start of the second phase of a project to strengthen systems for health workforce data and evidence, including the institutionalisation of the National Health Workforce Account (NHWA), the Human Resource Information System (HRIS), comprehensive labour market analysis, policy dialogue, and the development of a strategic plan for health workforce optimisation and investment in Seychelles.
In her opening address, Dr Mein noted that over the years, Seychelles relied on the recruitment of highly skilled expatriate health workers from various countries and with varying degrees of clinical practice, experience and norms, and that moreover, the country lacks established staffing norms or an agreed mechanism for determining staffing requirements for public health facilities.
These, she said, make advocacy for increase in government budgetary allocation for Human Resources for Health (HRH) difficult because of lack of evidence for the need.
A joint roadmap was developed by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2020 with the aim of improving HRH policies and strategies that quantify health workforce needs, demands, and supply under various future scenarios to manage health workforce labour markets and devise effective and efficient policies that respond to today’s population needs while anticipating tomorrow’s expectations.
Based on the roadmap, a capacity-building workshop, and data collation exercise for National Health Workforce Account (NHWA) was conducted in February 2020 and produced a status report that highlighted key areas that require comprehensive workload analysis on the Health Labour Market (HLM) in Seychelles.
Among the topics to be covered during the workshop include manual application of WISN (defining activity standard for health services, establishing standard workloads), WISN application in hospitals, WISN implementation and analysis, and defining WISN activity standards, among other topics.
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