Developments in Nursing and Nurse Education Lisa Bayliss-Pratt

Director of Nursing, Assistant Director of Education and

Quality

Our purpose…

"Health Education England exists for one reason

only: to support the delivery of high quality

healthcare and health improvement to the patients

and public of England by ensuring that the

workforce of today and tomorrow has the right

numbers, skills, values and behaviours, at the right

time and in the right place."

…It was right then, it’s still right now.

We do make a difference

Nurse

Associates

Emergency

Medicine fill

rates

Record GP

trainee

Numbers

Paramedic

Education

Project

The Care

Certificate

Come Back

to Nursing

Widening

Participation

Pharmacy

Reform The Quality

Framework

Healthcare

Support

Workers Physicians

Associates Genomics

Dementia

Awareness

Training

CEPNs Shape of

Training

The world is evolving…

• Statutory duties for improved education and sufficient supply

• Need to be future-focused

• Need to deliver excellent education and training

• Need to be local and regional and national

• Need to be as efficient and effective as possible

• No longer commission Nurse and AHP HE places

• Even more local place based planning, service delivery and

organisation the new norm

• Less money to spend on running costs

• Reduced resource for programmes; projects; development;

transformation and education support

• Having to deliver sufficient supply in new ways due to Brexit

• The service needs us to develop current workforce more

Some things are staying the same…

...but some things are changing.

We are the NHS workforce organisation improving the quality

of education, training and patient care by…

• …thinking and leading (innovative and practical solutions and policy)

• …analysing and influencing (high quality data, evidence, analysis

and advice)

• …changing and improving (recruitment, development, transformation

and retention)

• …delivering and implementing (results and outcomes that make a

difference)

• …focusing on tomorrow (new roles, pathways, leaders and

technology)

• … all underpinned by our commitment to the NHS Constitution.

What we do…

We will improve the quality of NHS patient care through high-quality

education, training and workforce transformation underpinned by the

values of the NHS Constitution.

• We will lead thinking on new workforce policy solutions to support high quality

and sustainable services;

• We will use high quality data, evidence, advice and workforce expertise to

influence the delivery of NHS priorities;

• We will design and respond positively to innovative recruitment, retention,

development and transformation initiatives locally, regionally and nationally

which change and improve NHS services and quality of care;

• We will deliver high quality education and training, implement our Mandate and

support partner-led programmes to improve the quality of care and services;

• We will strategically focus on the future including new roles and pathways to

the professions and helping the NHS workforce embrace new technology.

Our objectives

Person-Centred Care

Shape of Caring

These five priority areas will

define HEE’s programme of work

over the next two years:

1) Ensuring Meaningful patient

and public involvement

2) Flexibility in Pre-Registration

Education

3) Excellence in Nursing

Practice

4) Valuing and Developing the

Care Assistant Workforce

5) Standards for Post-

Registration Education

Priority Areas

Valuing the Care Assistant

• High levels of interest: the first 11 test sites recruited 1,000 trainees;

with 1,000 “fast followers” to also be recruited across 24 sites in

March 17

• HEE will also develop a Nursing Associate Apprenticeship Standard

• An Independent Scrutiny Group is to be facilitated by Professor David

Sines to scope and consider the challenges facing the NA – especially the

administration of medicines

• Secretary of State has requested that the NMC consider regulating the

role

• Still challenges as regards media scrutiny and public confidence; HEE

are working to proactively develop the narrative that surrounds this role

Nursing Associate

Valuing the Care Assistant

Pre-reg Education Developing the NA

apprenticeship pathway

• Trailblazer group formed

• Pan-sector membership

• EOI accepted by DfE

November 2016

• Will be developed in parallel

to the nursing degree

apprenticeship standard

• Full support from DH and DfE

Pre-reg Education Developing the RN

apprenticeship pathway

• Trailblazer group re-formed

and has over 100 employer

members

• Draft standard accepted by

DfE November 2016

• Currently developing EPA

• Aim for completion by April

2017

Pre-reg Education The Nursing Apprenticeship

pathway - Opportunities

1. To develop a progression pathway from care assistant to

registered nurse using an apprenticeship model

2. To provide a route into nursing for those who cannot

financially support themselves

3. For employers to be able to ‘grow their own’ workforce that

stems from their local community

4. To work with key partners to develop a credible programme

that is valued and trusted.

Valuing Diversity

Moving into 2017/18…

• Development of post-registration

education that supports specialist

practice

• Building a career framework from

Care Certificate to PhD

• Evaluation of the nursing

associate role and its impact

• Development of NA and RN

apprenticeship standards

• Advanced practice