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Our fourth #ResNetSLT Twitter journal club took place on Wednesday, 27th April, 2016. It proved to be another lively discussion with 15 participants, 135 tweets and a potential reach of 133,000. This is such an important topic if we are to sustain health and the wider care system whilst managing demand, because staffing resource is the largest cost to any service delivery and is becoming increasingly scrutinised. Having tools to evidence workload demand and capacity, and to profile workforce requirements, are vital for quality care. In the Tweetchat the challenges we all face in clinical services were discussed, and experiences of approaches and processes for workforce planning were shared which included, surveys, time and motion/diary tools, point prevalence studies and manual counting. One of the greatest points of discussion was the challenges agreeing a minimum data set to enable consistent and comparable measurement/benchmarking. Participants shared experience of self-creating st