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Educating and Training the Future Health Professional Workforce in England - Developing the Partnership, 21 November 2001

Conference Programme

The subject of this conference was how to improve the important partnership between the NHS and higher education sector, the first in the UK to bring together experts, policy makers and practitioners from both sectors to debate the key issues highlighted in the NAO report Educating and Training the Future Health Professional Workforce for England.

Conference Programme:
Time: Event:
10:15

Welcome and Opening remarks

Sir John Bourn, Comptroller and Auditor General, National Audit Office

Chair of Morning sessions – Sir John Bourn, C&AG, National Audit Office
10:25 - 10:45 Key conclusions and recommendations from the National Audit Office Report and Committee of Public Accounts hearing on educating and training the future health professional workforce

Karen Taylor, Audit Manager, Health VFM Audit, National Audit Office
10:45 – 11:05 Developing the Partnership – How the NHS is responding to the challenges highlighted in the NAO report – the key initiatives driving the NHS agenda

Andrew Foster - Head of HR - the Department of Health
11:05 – 11:25 Developing the Partnership – How Universities are responding to the challenges highlighted in the NAO report

Professor Janet Finch, Vice Chancellor, Keele University, Universities UK Health Committees
11:25 - 11:40 Open Discussion
12:00 – 13:00 Breakout sessions
  1. Modernising and Developing the Contractual relationship
    Martin Staniforth, Deputy Director of Human Resources and Professor Steve West, Dean, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of the West of England.

    • Benchmarking NHS Contracts;
    • Introducing longer term contracts; and
    • The need for more flexibility in contracts.
  2. Managing Attrition from NHS funded training courses
    Professor Rosalyn Jowett, Deputy Head, Institute of Health Studies, University of Plymouth, and Sue Hodgetts, Chief Executive, Devon & Cornwall Workforce Development Confederation.

Chair of Afternoon Sessions

Professor Mike Pittilo, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, Kingston University and St George’s Hospital Medical School and PVC (Quality) at University of Hertfordshire.
 
14.00 – 14.20 What you need to know about Quality Assurance and the new Quality Assurance Arrangements for NHS funded university courses

Peter Williams, Active Chief Executive, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
14.20 - 14.40 Developing an integrated/ multi- professional approach to education and training

Professor Dame Jill Macleod Clark, Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Deputy Dean of Medicine, Health and Biological Sciences, University of Southampton.
14.40 - 15.00 Questions and discussion
15.15 – 16.15 Breakout Sessions
  1. New ways of Clinical Learning/Supporting clinical learning including identifying and managing Practice Placements:
    Sheila Salmon    , Director of Health Policy, Anglia Polytechnic University and Denise Hagel, Director of Nursing and Quality, Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust.
  2. Workforce Development Confederations – the challenges and achievements in developing the relationship between the NHS and higher education sectors:
    Lilian Richardson, Deputy Director of Workforce Development, South East Regional Office and Celia Cohen, Four Counties Workforce Development Confederation.
16.15 – 17.00 Summary of Challenges and Solutions
Panel discussion with speakers and presenters from breakout groups