ABSTRACT
Objective To analyze challenges existing in the human resources allocation at a tertiary hospital in Beijing and explore tactics for improving health manpower quality and distribution. Methods This study adopted retrospective and descriptive research methods to analyze the basic composition of hospital human resources, namely the numbers, age, educational background and academic titles. It also made descriptive and deductive analysis on the dynamic development of hospital human resources from 2012 to 2017. Results The proportion of hospital staff is balanced in general, yet with too many off-staffs; the proportion of various staff types is irrational. The overall age structure, makeup of education backgrounds to be improved; Lack of high-level talents; Lack of emphasis on career development planning for management and nursing staff. Conclusions The development of health human resources is evolving from quantity growth to that of staff competence improvement and staff makeup optimization. The hospital should explore and innovate approaches in staffing reform, draft manpower development plan scientifically, explore innovation means to make human scientific development planning, optimize the structure of human resources, innovate the talent evaluation mechanism and give full play to the incentive role of talent evaluation, guide professional training programs for health professionals, improve the efficiency of health human resources and work for balanced and coordinated development.