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Dashboard on Productivity Improvement in Nursing Care

Contents

  1. Policy on Productivity Improvement in Nursing Care
  2. Dashboards to monitor metrics
  3. Points to Note

1. Policy for improving productivity in the nursing care field

Background

While the demand for long-term care services is expected to further increase in the future, the working-age population is expected to decrease rapidly, and it is estimated that approximately 570,000 new long-term care workers will be needed by 2040.

The graph shows the number of care workers in 2022 (about 2.4 million) and the number of care workers newly needed in 2040 (about 2.72 million).

In order to address these issues, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is implementing a variety of comprehensive measures, such as improving the treatment of nursing care workers through wage increases, improving the work environment by reducing the workload through increased productivity, and developing an environment in which foreign nursing care workers can play an active role.

Among these, efforts to improve productivity in the nursing care field are defined as "raising the value of nursing care," and aim to improve the quality of nursing care services and to establish and secure human resources through human resource development and efficiency improvement.

A Logic Model for Improving Productivity in Nursing Care

In order to improve the productivity of all long-term care providers nationwide and in local communities, it is important for the national government to provide necessary support, for local governments to lead efforts to improve the productivity of local long-term care providers, and for those efforts to be effective.

Our ultimate goal is to create a sustainable nursing care service by reducing the workload of nursing care staff and improving the quality of nursing care services.

The illustration of the logic model for the productivity improvement of the nursing field is displayed.

For more information, please see:

2. Dashboards to monitor indicators

2.1 Key Indicators for Improving the Productivity of Care Providers

Indicators that are particularly important in the logic model for improving the productivity of nursing care workplaces are extracted, and data are collected and visualized. By monitoring the status of initiatives for improving productivity, improvement methods can be examined on a regular basis.
For a detailed explanation of each item, see Data Definition .

A Full-Screen Look at "Key Indicators for Improvement of Nursing Care Productivity"

2.2 Initiatives to Improve Productivity at Nursing Care Facilities (by Prefecture)

The table shows the state of introduction of ICT and home care robot, the state of introduction of the care plan data-linkage system, and other efforts by local governments and long-term care providers to improve productivity, by prefecture.

Viewing the "State of Efforts to Improve Long-Term Care Productivity (by Prefecture)" in Full Screen

3. Points to Note

Data

Defining Data

Update Data

The various numbers on the dashboard will be updated regularly.

True or false information

For the correct and incorrect information, please refer to Correct and Incorrect Information: Dashboard on Productivity Improvement in Nursing Care .

Opinions and requests

Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly, Senior Citizens' Support Division, Office for the Promotion of Efficient Long-Term Care
Phone: 03 5253 1111 (ext. 3875)