SHuRePlan

What decisions does the plan support?

One way of clarifying what the plan is for is to focus on what decisions it will support:

• What decisions will need to be made by the organisations that are developing the plan?
• What decisions, made by others, need to be influenced if the plan is to be successful?
• When do the decisions need to be made?

Trigger questions:
One way of identifying the decisions that a plan might support is to brainstorm what the 'trigger questions' might be. A group of stakeholders in the planning process is brought together and asked to list on post-it's the questions that they would want the plan to answer. These can then be clustered to identify a number of key underlying issues. For each of these issues the group then identifies who makes the decisions and whether it is within the remit of the plan.

Typical trigger questions might include:

• What skills should we be developing in the workforce and where?
• How are we going to cope with working time directive for junior doctors?
• How many nurses (Doctors, Physio etc) should we be training and in which specialisms?
• What can we do to improve retention?