SHuRePlan

How best can these options be combined to achieve a cost effective strategy?

By this stage, you have already identified and selected the options that are most likely to 'succeed'. These are the options that

• will have the greatest chance of reducing the gap in supply and demand are affordable
• will directly reduce the risk to service delivery
• also allow for the greatest degree of flexibility in the future, as we can never anticipate exactly what future requirements may be.

You'll need to set out clearly what the selected strategies are, how much they will cost (or cost-avoid), what the timeframes involved will be, how they complement each other and so on. Where possible and appropriate, increases in numbers or skills levels can be demonstrated. Organisational requirements can also be identified such as training placement capacity and support or an illustration of a new care pathway, showing the workforce implications.

Quite a lot of 'evidence' and modelling will have gone into reaching this stage in the process and this must be kept as back up and as measures for gauging the effectiveness at the monitoring and review stage. But to actually present the plans to your management audience, you'll need to extract the key aspects and recommendations where approval or choices have to be made.