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Get ConnectedIssue 1December 2014

Hi, My name is Mandy Shanahan and I am the Local Director at Health Education West Midlands. Welcome to our first ‘Get Connected’ newsletter. I am very excited to be launching this issue and do hope you enjoy reading it. Health Education West Midlands is responsible for the education and training of health and public health workers at a regional level. We’re a local education and training board (LETB) and are a sub-committee of Health Education England.

‘Get Connected’ provides a new space to showcase where we are working together with you, our partners and providers across the region, as well as connecting with you to identify more opportunities for collaborating.

We were shortlisted for HSJ Awards

2014We are excited to announce that our Talent for Care project was

shortlisted for the HSJ Workforce Award. Although Health Education

Yorkshire and Humber won the award, this was a fantastic achievement given over 1300 entries were received for the

awards in total.The Talent for Care project is

setting a national strategic framework for the development of the support workforce in the NHS.

Read more

We’re working with China

We are working with Chinese regional health boards to

design and implement general practitioner training to support

their substantial healthcare improvement project, through

our collaboration with University of Birmingham and Peking

University.

Click here to find out more

Genomics

We host the National School of Healthcare Science, who are transforming delivery of

healthcare science education, and creating exciting career

opportunities. They are also developing innovative

educational materials for the National Genomics Education

Programme. Watch the Introducing

Genomics in Healthcare video here

Shape of Caring review Engagement EventWe all know that healthcare is going to look very different over the next 15 years due to a range of reasons, such as ageing population; changing patterns of health and disease; delivery of more care in community settings; advances in care and treatment; and advances in technology, to name a few. As healthcare changes and as care patterns change, we must have a workforce of nurses and care assistants appropriately trained to meet those needs.

The Shape of Caring Review, led by Lord Willis of Knaresborough, will ensure that throughout their careers, nurses and care assistants receive consistent high quality education and training which supports patient care.

On 29th September a patient and public engagement session was held at BVSC, The Centre of Voluntary Action, to give patients and public the opportunity to make their voice heard on a number of important issues including the training of nurses and care assistants, continuing professional development, good practice, what is working, what isn’t and what needs to change.Engagement is key to delivering recommendations which will future proof our workforce and support them in delivering high quality patient care. Feedback received from this meeting will be taken on board in the development of the final report in February 2015.

Inspired by the idea of returning to nursing? Still committed to care and compassion?

If you’ve ever thought about returning to practice, now is the time to do it.If you have been a registered nurse previously and wish to return to the profession, then you may need to undertake a return to practice programme. The programme is essentially a period of updating your skills and knowledge, so that you can return to work in nursing and become re-registered.To ensure that returning to nursing is as simple as possible for you, return to practice programmes have been refreshed across the country so that you can enjoy a supportive, flexible and varied learning experience.

The development of the return to pratice programmes started at the beginning of 2014 and has seen contributions from a vast amount of people, which has led to the programmes being refreshed by nurses for nurses.

Health Education West Midlands is committed to funding high quality Return to Practice education programmes which reflect the needs of the healthcare employees, healthcare providers and patients. The Return to Practice (Nursing) programmes will be delivered by a number of Universities within the region.

On our website you can find links to the universities involved, how to apply, how we will support you and find out about the Return to Practice Open Days. Find out more

Come back to Nursing

Events and news:End of Life Care Event – 9th Dec 2014

We are planning a West Midlands end of life care event to share some of our local project work from the past year and to inspire others to join in with this important agenda. It will also include a national update and an opportunity to work with colleagues on future priorities and share their learning from recent project work.We continue to see end of life care as a priority and there is further investment planned to support education and training in end of life care. Register your place hereFollow us on twitter #endoflifecarewm

Apprenticeships in England are changing

Have your say in the development of new Apprenticeship Standards for Healthcare Support Workers and Assistant PractitionersRead more

Invitation to Dementia Pathway and Competency Framework Stakeholder Workshops

Workshop 1- 4th Dec 1-4.30pm Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, B12 9QH Workshop 2- 18th Dec 1-4.30pm The Studio, Canon Street, Birmingham, B2 5EP

To book your place contact Brenda 0300 123 1535 or email: Brenda.sherratt@northstaffs.nhs.uk

Check out our website for

more information on our

work, Board papers and

events

www.wm.hee.nhs.uk

Apprenticeship Awards 2014The HEWM NHS Apprenticeship Rec-ognition Awards 2014 took place on Thursday 23rd October 2014. We had an excellent turnout with a range of colleagues from across the West Mid-lands.The finalists brought with them family, friends and colleagues and the atmos-phere was certainly one of celebration.The winners for the various apprentice-ship awards were as follows:-Intermediate Apprentice of the Year (Clinical) – Jade Greenhough from Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust

Small Apprenticeship Employer of the Year- Black Country Partnership NHSFT

Intermediate Apprentice of the Year (Non-Clinical) – Anton Bayliss from University Hospitals Birmingham

Advanced Apprentice of the Year (Clinical) – Simon Bangham from West Midlands Ambulance Service

Advanced Apprentice of the Year (Non-Clinical) – James Harvey from University Hospital of North Staffordshire

Medium Apprenticeship Employer of the Year- Walsall Health Care NHS Trust

Large Apprenticeship Employer of the Year- The Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust

Apprenticeship Champion of the Year – Lauren Weigh from Sandwell & West Birmingham

Inspired by the idea of returning to nursing? Still committed to care and compassion?

If you’ve ever thought about returning to practice, now is the time to do it.If you have been a registered nurse previously and wish to return to the profession, then you may need to undertake a return to practice programme. The programme is essentially a period of updating your skills and knowledge, so that you can return to work in nursing and become re-registered.To ensure that returning to nursing is as simple as possible for you, return to practice programmes have been refreshed across the country so that you can enjoy a supportive, flexible and varied learning experience.

The development of the return to pratice programmes started at the beginning of 2014 and has seen contributions from a vast amount of people, which has led to the programmes being refreshed by nurses for nurses.

Health Education West Midlands is committed to funding high quality Return to Practice education programmes which reflect the needs of the healthcare employees, healthcare providers and patients. The Return to Practice (Nursing) programmes will be delivered by a number of Universities within the region.

On our website you can find links to the universities involved, how to apply, how we will support you and find out about the Return to Practice Open Days. Find out more

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