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Field Productivity Dashboard

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  • On April 24th, 2026, the index was added and the data was updated.

Table of Contents

1. Policies and guidelines for improving the productivity of long-term care workplaces

1. 1. Background

While demand for nursing care services is expected to increase further, the working-age population is expected to decline rapidly, and approximately 570,000 new nursing care workers are estimated to be needed in 2040.

The graph shows the number of care workers as of 2022 (approximately 2.4 million) and the number of additional care workers needed in 2040 (approximately 2.72 million).

In order to respond to these issues, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is implementing a variety of comprehensive measures, such as improving the treatment of long-term care workers, including wage increases, improving the work environment, including reducing the burden of work by increasing productivity, and developing environments in which foreign long-term care workers can play an active role.

Of these, efforts to improve productivity at long-term care sites are defined as "enhancing the value of long-term care." The aim is to improve the quality of long-term care services and to retain and secure human resources through human resource development and efficiency improvement.

1.2. Logic Model for Improving Productivity at Care Sites

In order to improve the productivity of long-term care providers nationwide and in local communities as a whole, 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 long-term care providers, and for these efforts to be effective.

Ultimately, we aim to achieve 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 productivity improvement of the nursing field is displayed.

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1.3. List of key indicators

We extract particularly important indicators in the logic model for improving productivity at nursing care sites, and collect and visualize the data. By monitoring the status of efforts to improve productivity, we can examine improvement methods on a regular basis.
For a detailed explanation of each item, see Data Definition .

2. Indicators for improving productivity at long-term care facilities

2.1. Measuring the Effects

Staffing ratio

We visualize the staffing ratio as one of the indicators to show the productivity improvement results at nursing care sites.
It shows the status of each of the main nursing care facilities, which are Long-Term Care Health Facilities, Long-Term Care Welfare Facilities, and Designated Facilities for life assistance of care home for the elderly.

2. 2. Utilization of infrastructure and environment

Addition for improvement of productivity

From the perspective of promoting efforts to improve productivity at nursing care facilities, the Productivity Improvement Incentive Program supports the continued use of technologies such as home care robot and ICT after their introduction. The status of acquisition of Additional Points (I) and (II) at major nursing care facilities such as health care facilities for the elderly, long-term care welfare facilities for the elderly, and designated life assistance of care home for the elderly facilities is indicated respectively.

Various Initiatives

Regarding the continuous activities of long-term care providers, the status of introduction of ICT, home care robot, etc. and the status of introduction of care plan data linkage system, etc. are displayed by prefecture.

2.3. Development of infrastructure and environment

One-stop counter

One-stop counters are established so that the necessary procedures and consultations for using long-term care services can be done in one place. This is an initiative to ensure that users can use various services efficiently. The status of establishment of one-stop counters in each prefecture is shown.

3. Important Points

Data:

Defining Data

Refresh Data

We plan to update the various dashboard numbers on a regular basis.

True or false information

For data-related true or false information, please refer to True or False Information: Dashboard on Improving Productivity in Nursing Care.

4. Opinions and Requests

Care Service Efficiency and Productivity Improvement Promotion Office, Elderly Support Division, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly

Tel: 03-5253-1111 (ext. 3875)