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Dashboard for Improving Productivity in Nursing Care

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  • May 26, 2025
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Contents

  1. Policy on Improving Productivity at Nursing Care Facilities
  2. Dashboards to monitor the metrics
  3. Important Points

1. Policy on improving the productivity of nursing care sites

Background

Demand for nursing care services is expected to further increase in the future, while the working-age population is expected to decline rapidly. It is estimated that approximately 570,000 new nursing care staff will be needed by 2040.

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

In order to address these issues, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has been comprehensively implementing a variety of initiatives, such as improving the treatment of nursing care workers by raising wages, improving the work environment by reducing the workload through increased productivity, and developing environments in which foreign nursing care workers can play an active role.

Of these, initiatives to improve productivity at nursing care facilities are defined as "raising the value of nursing care," and aim to improve the quality of nursing care services and to retain and secure human resources through human resource development and efficiency improvement.

A Logic Model for Improving Productivity in Nursing Care Settings

In order to improve the productivity of all national and regional nursing care providers, it is important for the national government to provide the necessary support, for local governments to take the lead in efforts to improve the productivity of local nursing care sites, and for those efforts to be effective.

In the end, we aim to create sustainable long-term care services by reducing the workload of long-term care staff and improving the quality of long-term care services.

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

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2. Dashboards to monitor metrics

2.1 Key Indicators for Improving Productivity in Nursing Care Settings

In the logic model for improving productivity in the nursing care field, we extract indicators that are particularly important and collect and visualize data. By monitoring the status of efforts to improve productivity, we can constantly consider ways to improve it.
Please refer to Data Definition for a detailed explanation of each item.

Full-Screen View of "Key Indicators for Improving Productivity in Nursing Care"

2.2 Status of initiatives to improve productivity at nursing care facilities (by prefecture)

Measures taken by local governments and nursing care providers to improve productivity, such as the status of introduction of ICT and home care robot, and the status of introduction of care plan data-linkage systems, are shown by prefecture.

"Status of Efforts to Improve Productivity in Nursing Care (by Prefecture)" Viewed on Full Screen

3. Points to Note

Data

Data Definition

Refresh Data

Dashboard metrics will be updated periodically.

True / false information

For more information, please refer to the Truth and Error Report: Improving the Productivity of Nursing Care Dashboard.

Opinions and requests

Senior Citizen Support Division, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly
Phone: 03 5253 1111, extension 3875