Independent Review of Children

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Modernising Nursing Careers
Kathryn Halford 15th March 2007
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Vision for Health Reform

• More choice and voice
• Care closer to home
• Stronger commissioning - better services with
  better value for money
• Freedom for providers to innovate and improve
  services
• More opportunities for other sectors voluntary,
  private, social enterprise
• Front line staff driving forward change

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Modernising Nursing Careers

• UK wide sponsored by the 4 CNOs
• Sets direction
• Part of Modernising Healthcare Careers
• Changing health economy
• Nursing contribution
• Cross sector and specialism

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The future nursing and midwifery workforce

• A confident quality focused workforce
• A more responsive flexible workforce
• A patient-focused workforce (care closer to home)
  
• A workforce that can lead change
• A high quality and productive workforce

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Time to reflect

• Time to engage

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Four Key Priorities

1. Develop a competent and flexible workforce
2. Update career pathways and career choices
3. Prepare nurses to lead in a changed system
4. Modernise the image of nursing and careers

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Develop a competent andflexible nursing workforce

• Explore whether changes are needed to the content
  and level of pre-registration education
• Map roles and competences to the NHS Careers
  Framework
• Develop proposals for a competency passport
  scheme
• Review careers paths and educational preparation
  for specialist and advanced roles

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Update career pathwaysand career choices

• Review career pathways and preparation for
  nursing in the community
• Review educator roles and encourage career paths
  between service and education
• Provide tools to support career choices and
  navigation
• UK CNOs to work with new and existing independent
  sector providers

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Preparing nurses to lead

• UK wide led
• Northern Ireland leading on nursing
  responsibilities for leading delivering care
• Link into work planned in England for learning
  disabilities nursing
• Wales leading on fast track schemes for future
  nurse leaders focussed on key roles

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Modernising the Image of Nursing and Nursing
Careers

• UK wide
• NHS Employers led workshop on the 23rd October
  2006
• New 14-19 curriculum (Skills for Health linked)
• Build on work such as maxi nurse/nursing
  standard campaign - nursing the future
• Actions to be confirmed for different audiences
  (Liz Eddy)

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Modernising Nursing Careers
Kathryn Halford 15th March 2007