Education Transformation

Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)Team have developed a structured five day bespoke placement for third year student nurses incorporating the management outcomes of their final placement relevant to IPC.The Core Outcomes of the placement covers MRSA; Clostridium difficile and Norovirus, which were selected because they are the most common organisms encountered on the wards. Students are also able to suggest two learning outcomes of their own.

The recent reports of both Francis (2013) and Cavendish (2013) set out a requirement to develop training and educational pathways for all health care assistants and support staff. A code of conduct for support staff has also been developed by Skills for Health and Skills for Care (March 2013) and the Government have included support staff development as one of 11 national priority projects in their mandate to Health Education England (DOH 2013) and Talent to Care (2013).Support workers make up around a third of the caring workforce and often spend more time with service users than nurses.

NHS Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), general practices and the University of Cumbria are working in partnership with the North West Placement Development Network (NWPDN) to develop and increase primary care placement opportunities for pre-registration nursing students, trainee assistant practitioners and nursing cadets.

The NHS North West Leadership Academy is a member’s organisation created to help develop senior leaders in the North West to be the best they can be, ensuring that they create the environment and the culture to enable the delivery of caring, compassionate, safe, effective high quality services for patients, service users and local populations.The NHS North West Leadership Academy’s focus is to provide current, effective, leadership programmes, products and support to help NHS North West leaders face and overcome the challenges that come their way.The NHS North West Leadership Academy:Unders

To coincide with the first anniversary of the launch of Health Education North West’s Apprenticeship Promise a celebration event was held on 13th March at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton.Sir Keith Pearson (Chair, Health Education England) and Sally Cheshire (Chair, Health Education North West) were joined by apprentices and NHS trust representatives from across the region along with strategic partners, to celebrate the region’s achievements since last year’s launch. This document provides an overview of that event. 

The first Y&H eLearning awards took place on the 18th June 2014 at the Hilton, Leeds.It was a celebration of the hard work and achievements that have taken place through-out the region.There were six categories in total and a breakdown of winners, runner-ups and nominees.For more information on any of the awards, or to nominate someone for the next eLearning awards please contact:Kate Holliday - Health Education Yorkshire and the Humberemail: kate.holliday@yh.hee.nhs.uk 

A partnership between Edge Hill University, NHS South Sefton CCG, NHS Southport and Formby CCG and the North West Placement Development Network (NWPDN) has developed a project to provide nursing students with a placement in a CCG. They have highlighted the need for nurses to gain experience and knowledge of working in a CCG and to promote this as a possible career destination.

Skills for Health and Skills for Care were commissioned by the Department of Health following the Secretary of State’s speech at an NHS Employers conference on 15 November 2011, where he announced that the Government’s intention was to commission work to develop a Code of Conduct and minimum standards for education for support workers.The Code of Conduct and National Minimum Training Standards are aimed at healthcare support workers and adult social care workers throughout England and as such are relevant to all NHS employers.

On 11 March 2015 the North West Allied Health Professions Network hosted ‘Early Career Networking – What can the North West AHP Network do for you?’ at the Macron Stadium, Bolton. The event was attended by approximately 80 allied health professionals (AHP) from a range of disciplines, from dietitians to speech and language therapists, who are in the early stages of their career.In 2014, Norah Flood, the Chair of the North West AHP Network, set an informal objective of broadening engagement and encouraging new faces to the network.

A national vision and call to action for school nursing services has been recently published and the North West is investing in an implementationprogramme to support the partners involved in this work. The implementation programme is being led by the Child Health Development Programme and the North West Regional Youth Work Unit and wish to hear from all involved partners to explore their views, needs and support mechanisms they would like to see employed in this project. The project will last until the end of the year and will cover all North West areas.