Hr Policies

4. HR POLICIES AND STRATEGIES FOR 2007-2011 Human Resource Policies and Strategies for the health sector for the next five years are geared towards tackling the existing challenges of the sector. The workforce goal is aimed at getting the “right workers with the right skills in the right place doing the right things ” (WHO, World global report, 2006).The emphasis will be to produce adequate numbers, retain them and periodically update their skills to respond to health situations and future challenges. The development of the policies and strategies in this document, centers on critical analysis of the global health worker situation, National Development Goals and the policy direction of the Health sector. It also focuses on Human Resource challenges in Ghana, impact of the existing human resource polices and World Health Organization models on health worker productivity. This is aimed at ensuring health worker availability, competence and skills development, responsiveness to emerging challenges and higher productivity. Key Policy Questions Critical analysis of the challenges has led to the following key policy questions.  How does the health sector ensure more equitable distribution and skill mix of health staff at different levels of care and geographic locations?  What can the health sector do to retain trained health professionals?  How does the Health Sector address HRH gaps with non-professional health workers?  What are the HRH requirements for meeting the Millennium development goals for health?  What can the Health Sector do to expand the middle level HRH?  How does the Health Sector finance and sustain HRH remunerations?  What creative and effective retention strategies are currently in place and how can these be sustained?  What kind of contractual arrangement should the Ministry put in place to get returns on investment in trained health workers to ensure brain gain?  How can the training of health workers be scaled up to ensure quality and... [continues]

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