Whole system quality: local benchmarking to improve workforce planning

As a team of workforce analysts and academics with an interest in workforce planning, we are aware that the data available to support primary care workforce planning are disorganised and overwhelming. This makes it difficult for General Practice to extract meaningful and relevant information. We deliver workforce planning workshops across England. Participants at our workshops regularly express their frustration with the quantity of information they are required to produce and the quality of information they receive from other parts of the system. We are dismayed at what we sense to be growing cynicism with data generation and information analysis and are interested in stimulating a conversation about what data matter and how primary care teams can extract data that are useful