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Dashboard on improvements in productivity at Nursing Care Sites

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  1. Policy Guidelines on improvements in productivity at Nursing Care Sites
  2. A dashboard for monitoring indicators
  3. Points to Note

1. Policy Guidelines on improvements in productivity at Nursing Care Sites

Background

In the future, while demand for nursing care services is expected to increase further, the working-age population is expected to decrease rapidly, and it is estimated that about 570,000 new nursing care workers will be required in 2040.

The graph shows the number of caregivers in 2022 (approximately 2.4 million) and the number of caregivers newly required in 2040 (approximately 2.72 million).

In response to this Issue, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is comprehensively implementing various initiatives, including improving the treatment of nursing care workers, such as wage increases, improving the work environment, such as reducing the workload of improvements in productivity, and developing an environment in which foreign nursing care workers can play an active role.

Of these, improvements in productivity's efforts at the nursing care field are defined as "enhancing 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.

A Logic Model for improvements in productivity in Nursing Care Settings

In order to realize a improvements in productivity for all nursing care providers in Japan and area, it is important for the national government to provide the necessary support, for each local governments to lead the efforts for the improvements in productivity at the nursing care site in area, and for the efforts to be effective.

Ultimately, we aim to provide sustainable nursing care services by reducing the workload of nursing care staff and improving the quality of nursing care services.

The illustration of the logic model for the improvements in productivity of the nursing care field is displayed.

For more information, please check the following.

2. Dashboard to monitor indicators

2.1 Key Indicators for improvements in productivity in Care Settings

Indicators that are particularly important in the logic model for improvements in productivity at the nursing care site are extracted, and data collection and visualization are performed. By monitoring the status of efforts related to improvements in productivity, improvement methods can be examined on a regular basis.
See Data Definition for a detailed description of each item.

See "Key Indicators for Nursing Care improvements in productivity" in Full Screen

2.2 Efforts for improvements in productivity at Nursing Care Sites (by Prefecture)

Initiatives for data connections by local governments and nursing care providers, such as the status of introduction of ICT, home care robot, etc. and the status of introduction of the Care Plan improvements in productivity System, are displayed by prefecture.

See the "Status of Efforts for Nursing Care improvements in productivity (by Prefecture)" in Full Screen

3. Points to be noted

Data

Data Definition

Update Data

We plan to update the various numbers in the dashboard regularly.

True or false information

For correct and incorrect information, please refer to Correct and Incorrect Information: Dashboard improvements in productivity on at Nursing Care Sites.

Comments and Requests

Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly Elderly Support Division Nursing Care Business efficiency and improvements in productivity Promotion Office
Tel: 03 5253 1111 (ext. 3875)