Nursing forms the largest part of the workforce. It is diverse and spans all parts of the health sector. The volumes of staff involved creates challenges for employers when looking at workforce and service plans but its size and broad base of skill also provides huge opportunities to change the way patient care is delivered.
The requirements of employers described in the 2011/12 Operating Framework and the proposals outlined in the Health and Social Care Bill set a challenging scene for employers, both now and the immediate future years.
To succeed in delivering high quality patient care in a tight financial climate requires more than small scale innovation and creativity in service delivery. Although these are important elements of any change programme, employers will need to think about whole scale re-profiling of the workforce to meet the changes needed to service delivery plans and within the financial budget available.
Our work programme
Our programme focuses on several aspects of nursing and education including:
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the change in pre registration nurse education
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the importance and value of preceptorship
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using the career framework to enhance local workforce development and plans.
Our Briefing ‘Preparing for Change: implementing the new pre-registration nursing standards, ’ published to accompany the NMC Standards for pre registration nurse education provides a framework for employers to think about how the future workforce is trained to be fit for purpose but also how these standards provide a lever to change the way services can be delivered and the workforce re-profiled to enhance patient care.
Nursing workforce pages
We keep you up to date with information and updates on our Latest news page. Here you will find all the recent information relevant to the nursing workforce, with links to further information to keep you up to date.
The Education and training pages provide information, guidance and resources to support the training of the nursing workforce. The pre-registration section contains guidance on the new standards for pre-registration nursing education from the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The pages contain step-by-step support, short films and our Briefing Preparing for change: implementing the new pre-registration nursing standards. Post-registration training details information on preceptorship and advanced level nursing.
Our Tools and resources pages bring together the latest reports, publications and toolkits on nursing workforce issues. Here you will find guides and reports to help with planning and implementing nursing policy and practice.
Get in touch
If you have any suggestions or comments regarding our nursing workforce web pages or would like to tell us about areas of the nursing workforce you are involved with, please email us nursing@nhsemployers.org.