Health Education England

Creating a research active

workforce: a national perspective

Ged Byrne, Director of Education and Quality, Health

Education North West

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Our core purpose

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HEE exists for one purpose only: to deliver a

better health and healthcare workforce for

England, through the education, training and

personal development of every member of

staff and recruiting for values.

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Research and Innovation

• Statutory duty to promote research

• We want to be an evidence-informed organisation

• Research & Innovation Strategy

• Clinical Academic Careers Stakeholder Group

o clinical academic training programmes (NIHR)

• Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs)

• Work with HEIs and research organisations is key

Innovation is vital to allow health services to meet the

challenges of the future

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Policy and legal context

• The Health and Social Care Act

2012

• The Health Education England

Directions 2013

• The Mandate from the

Government to Health

Education England April 2014

to March 2015

We have a duty to promote the

values of the NHS Constitution

“HEE’s objective is to develop a

more flexible workforce that is able

to respond to the changing

patterns of service. It will need to

develop a workforce that embraces

research and innovation to allow it

to adapt to the changing demands

of public health, healthcare and

care services where staff are at the

forefront of implementing the

Innovation Health and Wealth

Strategy”

(The Mandate 2014 to 2015)

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In May 2014, HEE invited

stakeholders to comment on its

draft HEE Research and

Innovation Strategy.

Over 70 organisations

responded & feedback has

been incorporated in to the

revised Strategy &

implementation plan.

The final version will be

presented to the HEE Board for

approval in September.

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Aims

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Research and Innovation Strategy

• to create an education and training system that

is evidence based and underpinned by research

and innovation; and

• to build the capacity and capability of our

current and future workforce to embrace and

actively engage with research and innovation.

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Objectives

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Research and Innovation Strategy

Establish a system wide coherence to education and training which will facilitate and sustain the organisational and cultural changes required to embed research and innovation.

Ensure that the evidence on best

practice for training in research and

innovation informs and influences the

delivery of effective education and

training within the healthcare system

Develop a multi-professional Clinical

Academic Careers Framework for patient benefit.

Establish a HEE Research and Innovation Evidence Hub to ensure investment in future education and training is evidence informed.

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Objective 1

Establish a system wide coherence to education

and training which will facilitate and sustain the

organisational and cultural changes required to

embed research and innovation.

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Objective 1

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HEE Research and Innovation Pathway

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Objective 1

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Flexible Workforce that embraces Research and Innovation

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Objective 2

Ensure that the evidence on best practice for

training in research and innovation informs and

influences the delivery of effective education and

training within the healthcare system

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Objective 2

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Outcome

metrics

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Objective 3

Develop a multi-professional Clinical Academic

Careers Framework for patient benefit.

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Clinical Academic Careers

Stakeholder Group

• Multi-professional group: HEE, CPOs, CoD, DH, NIHR

• Providing oversight and direction in 14/15 for the current CAT

Programme

• Discuss links with Integrated Academic Training (IAT)

• Develop and establish a common clinical academic careers

framework to encompass the whole healthcare workforce*

• Ensure collaboration with all strategic partners

• Design and launch the new HEE Integrated Clinical Academic

Programme (ICAP)

• Contribute to Research and Innovation Strategy

* doctors and dentists are separately funded and governed by DH

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Clinical Academic Training

Programme - review

• One task for the CACSG was to review the CAT Programme –

4 levels

• A questionnaire was circulated to key stakeholders to establish

a baseline position for the CAT Programme, and identify key

issues relating to areas of good practice or barriers to access

to the various CAT Programme schemes

• The existing scheme was opened up to include pharmacists

as a pilot

• A new CAC Framework is being developed that consolidates

existing schemes into one programme for all healthcare

professionals outside medicine and dentistry – also open to a

wider range of professions

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Clinical Academic Careers

Framework

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Objective 4

Establish a HEE Research and Innovation Evidence

Hub to ensure investment in future education and

training is evidence informed.

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Thank you