Transcript Effective Partnerships in Health and Social Care – can

The Nurses’ Role in
Practice Based
Education: can this
really influence care
standards now and in
the future?
Tracy Small
Deputy Director Clinical Development and Innovation
Jan Firth
Associate Dean - University of Huddersfield
Workforce Planning and
Educational Commissioning
Service
Providers
Commissioners
SHA
DH
Department of Health
• Setting the national framework for planning and designing
the system
• PM commission on nursing
• From good to great – new white paper
• Improvement against national priorities
•specialist nurses and new roles
• Partner with Professional Bodies and Royal Colleges
•identifying new recordable qualifications such
as advance practitioners
Reference: Workforce Ambitions 2009-2014, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber
(adapted)
Workforce Planning and
Educational Commissioning
Service
Providers
SHA
Commissioners
• System leadership driving workforce and education
improvement and alignment to service needs
•Education and workforce combined directorate
SHA
• Sound stewardship of MPET funds and investment in
education and training
•Review to fund placements for student nurses
DH
• Use available levers to ensure provision of high quality
placement learning and assessment
•Practice learning facilitators
• Area-wide talent management and leadership planning
Reference: Workforce Ambitions 2009-2014, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber
Workforce Planning and
Educational Commissioning
Service
Providers
Commissioners
SHA
DH
Commissioners
• Publication of commissioning intentions drives local
planning processes
•Practice placement planning possible
• Assessment of the quality, sustainability and deliverability
of the summation of provider plans to identify key strategic
health and social care risks for the local economy (includes
local labour market issues)
• Development of shared workforce improvement goals and
the facilitation of cross-boundary working
•Allows national picture for nursing needs
•Useful interprofessional learning strategies
Reference: Workforce Ambitions 2009-2014, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber
(adapted)
Workforce Planning and
Educational Commissioning
Service Providers
Service
Providers
• Organisational workforce plan which reflects professional
roles and responsibilities, patient pathways and is integrated
with service, finance and IT plans
• Partnership and integrated approach controls
numbers
• Best employment practice
Commissioners
• High quality clinical components
• Centrally agreed placements
• Practice Learning Facilitators and mentors
SHA
DH
• Local employment and widening participation initiatives
• Encourage research and innovation to inform practice
• Joint projects, professional doctorates
• Investment in CPD and lifelong learning
• Professional feedback into professional advisory
mechanisms
Reference: Workforce Ambitions 2009-2014, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber
(adapted)
Calderdale
Kirklees
Yorkshire & Humber SHA
Areas to Discuss
• Practice Learning Facilitators
• Developing skills in one Primary Care
Trust
• Increasing Access to Primary Care
Placements
Practice Learning Facilitators
• Ensuring practice placements meet
required standards
• Providing relevant inductions within
placement organisations
• Ensuring support for students on
placement
• Discussing placement feedback
• Developing new practice placements
PLF Outcomes
• Increased number of placements across
the patch
• Developed new placements
• Allowed students to experience
specialist practices
• Ensured all placements meet NMC
standards
• Provided on-line information / feedback
Developing Skills in Primary
Care
• Limited access to Primary Care Placements
• Health Care Assistants from Primary Care
unable to gain employment following
qualification
• New qualified staff required additional skill
development
• Develop District Nursing Placements
PCT Skills Outcomes
• Increased numbers of Primary Care
Placements available
• Increased numbers of students able to
gain longer placements
• Final placements developed in Primary
Care
• Access to Primary Care upon
qualification
• Development of Primary Care rotational
placements
Increasing Access to PCT
Placements
• Age profile of community workforce
• Development of services in the
community
• Age profile of the population increasing
• Bias Project
Developing Access Outcomes
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50% placement time in community
Accessed for different branch students
During pilot, over subscribed
20% of cohort wanting new
opportunities
• From pilot first ambition to work in PCTs
• Developed relevant skills to directly
work in Primary Care
• Roll out across all Primary Care Trusts