Setting the Direction for Nursing and Midwifery Education in Scotland

Jane Harris Programme Director NMAHP

Public health record

Changes in demography

The economic environment

Scotland’s challenges

.....by 2020

everyone will live longer healthier lives at home or in a homely setting

health and social care services for adults will be integrated

children will have the best start in life

A focus on: Prevention - Early detection - Safety – Improved equity and access – Digital technology-Supporting self-management- Care in communities

New ways of working

• Care and compassion• Dignity and respect• Openness, honesty and responsibility• Quality and teamwork

NHS Scotland values Continuous quality improvement

• Safe• Effective• Person-centred

CNO Education Review 2012

Identified: strengths and achievements in nursing and midwifery education and research

Future aim: ensuring access to the best education and development for a confident, competent and caring workforce for 2020 and beyond

Setting the Direction -http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/02/4112Summary leaflet - http://www.scotland.gov.uk/settingthedirectionsummary

Aims of Setting the Direction

• Focused, concise, accessible• Engage all stakeholders• 6 clear strategic aims with broad goals for

achieving them – Performance (‘How are we doing this now’)– Improvement (‘Improving what we do’)– Combining assets to co create future (‘Collaborating

for the future’)• Facilitate the development and implementation

of the Delivery Plan

•Making sure we have N&M and N&M Care that meets population needs in the future •Our legacy •Using & building assets •Momentum - Improving what we do now •Naming the Game Changers •Co-production – students and people at the heart •Partnership -sector & professional consensus; agree first then operationalise•Being open- knowing what we don’t know •Challenge - asking critical questions about the things we hold dear and the others we’ve always done •Acknowledging vested interests

Our Approach to Setting the Direction

*Strategic aim 6 (infrastructure) Delivery Group

Setting the Direction Delivery Group *

SHANAHPScottish Heads of

Academic Nursing and Allied Health Professions

SENDsScottish

Executive Nurse Directors

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Strategic aims 1 – 5 Sub-groups

Pre-registration Student Reference group

Post-registration Student Reference group

Scottish Government Ministers

SG Health & Social Care management Board

Strategic aim 1

Develop a sustainable national approach to post-registration /postgraduate education & Continuing professional development – 1.5 Support postgraduate development early in

nursing and midwifery careers in key areas of practice, management, education and research

Update• Setting the Direction Launch

– 13.02.14 NHS Education for Scotland Nursing and Midwifery Recruitment and Retention Research Conference at Heriot-Watt University

• Delivery Group– 12.02.14 (2014 dates – 31.03, 28.05, 29.07, 26.11)

• 5 Sub-groups• Delivery Plan

– June to November 2014• 2 Student Reference groups - pre-registration and

post-registration/postgraduate• Publications

Setting the Direction -http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/02/4112Summary leaflet - http://www.scotland.gov.uk/settingthedirectionsummary

Collaborating for the future

How we are doing this now

Improving what we do