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Changing NHS and HE Landscape Degrees, Tariffs and Fees. Professor Helen Langton. Key areas to explore. Changing NHS and HE Landscape Impacts of the changes Changes to nursing and allied health CPD Technology Enhanced Learning International Work based learning
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Changing NHS and HE Landscape Degrees, Tariffs and Fees Professor Helen Langton
Key areas to explore • Changing NHS and HE Landscape • Impacts of the changes • Changes to nursing and allied health • CPD • Technology Enhanced Learning • International • Work based learning • Diversity, access and widening participation
Current structure • Department of Health • 10 Strategic Health Authorities • NHS Trusts – Acute, Foundation and Primary Care • Some private provision • Commissioning of care and commissioning of education • Medical Education England with Professional Advisory Boards
New NHS Landscape • New Government with radical change to the NHS • Any willing provider • Nothing about me without me • A PM with personal interest • Abolition of SHA and Primary Care Trusts • NHS Board • Health Education England • Provider Led Skills Networks and clusters
A Pause - to listen? • Unprecedented • PM late to reform so get it through and compromise • PM listening but no change • Lib Dem impact • Futures forum – patient involvement • Any willing provider may change • Monitor to promote partnerships not competition • Keep the framework for change
Higher Education Impacts • Department of Business, Innovation and Skills • Browne Report and Comprehensive Spending Review (HEFCE Funding) • Unaffordable Higher Education – student loans and core funding • Higher fees • Free market • New providers e.g. private providers and Further Education • Reduction in students due to increased fees • Cap in student numbers
Higher Education Impacts • Focus of universities – on programmes that attract high numbers of studentswith high selectivity, employability outcomes and high student experience scores e.g.NSS • Research funding and future of evidence base • New markets e.g. international, part time, national not regional • New methods of delivery
Impact on NHS Funded places • Dramatic change to the shape of higher education – paper on education and training workforce for the future • Browne and health • Commissioning of undergraduate places down • Retendering of contracts • Bursary scrutiny • NHS or HEFCE model for fees • Social enterprise • Emphasis on efficiency savings • Power into the hands of the customer – and who is the customer? • Public input and expectations greater
Changes to Nursing • All graduate entry by 2015 • New NMC nursing competencies and standards • More flexibility • Personalisation agenda • Shift from acute to community care • Public Health focus
Changes to Nursing • Nurses as co-ordinators of care • Leadership building • Capacity to build new roles and be radical • And what about the gap between Higher education and practice • The clinical academic in nursing in the future? • Building a nursing career
Impacts for Allied Health Practitioners (APHs) • Health professions council oversight • Visibility of professions • Reduction in numbers • Blurring of boundaries • Leadership building • Capacity to build new roles • And what about the gap between Higher education and practice • The clinical academic for AHPs in the future? • Building an AHP career
CPD • What is CPD in today's climate/market • New contract and further competition • E based • Who will pay? • Scope for specialist development
Technology Enhanced Learning • Accessible and flexible • Barriers and challenges to include skills, access, motivation • International opportunities • Blended or totally ‘e’? • Linked into practice
Work Based Learning • The future? • How do we make it work? • Challenges around time/fees/workload
Internationalisation • Future growth for HEIs? • UKBA issues so on campus/overseas delivery/on line • Internationalisation of the curriculum for the global market • E.g. China
Diversity, access and widening participation • Fees caveats and the role of OFA • Recruitment and selection processes • Tariff and impact of all degree registration • Progression agreements with FE colleges • Careers advice for young people and mature students • Gender and ethnic group imbalance in the workforce • Recruiting for a national or local workforce • Work experience prior to application
Diversity, access and widening participation • Lets not forget that our patients/clients deserve to be cared for by a workforce that is representative of the client group • Don’t underestimate the influence of public and patient engagement • In a competitive world HEIs will be working hard to recruit and retain students who will meet the needs of the workforce for the future
The Future • Scary • Woe is me • Bury my head in the sand • Its not right • ‘in my day’.........!!! • Exciting • Lots of opportunities • Hard work and challenges ahead • Got to work together to get the best Version One Version Two