Health Education England - an Introduction
LETBs will report to the new body Health Education England (HEE). HEE will provide national leadership and oversight of the planning and development of the healthcare and public health workforce, including the allocation of education and training resources. HEE Directions have been published, and its first newsletter can be read here.The Education Outcomes Framework for Health Education England is published on their website. It confirms that the five high level domains of the Framework are:
- Excellent education: Education and training is commissioned and provided to the highest standards, ensuring learners have an excellent experience and that all elements of education and training are delivered in a safe environement for patients, staff and learners.
- Competent and capable staff: There are sufficient health staff educated and trained, aligned to service and changing care needs, to ensure that people are cared for by staff who are properly indcuted, trained and qualified, who have the required knowledge and skills to do the jobs the service needs, whilst working effectively in a team.
- Adaptable and flexible workforce: The workforce is educated to be responsive to innovation and new technologies with knowledge about best practice, research and innovation, that promotes adoption and dissemination of better quality service delivery to reduce variability and poor practice.
- NHS values and behaviours: Healthcare staff have the necessary compassion, values and behaviours to provide person centred care and enhance the quality of the patient experience through education, training and regular Continuing Personal and Professional Development (CPPD), that instils respect for patients.
- Widening participation: Talent and leadership flourishes free from discrimination with fair opportunities to progress and everyone can participate to fulfil their potential, recognising individual as well as group differences, treating people as individuals, and placing positive value on diversity in the workforce and there are opportunities to progress across the five leadership framework domains.
Characteristics of HEE
• HEE will provide leadership and national oversight to the new education, training and workforce development system• Provide national leadership on planning and developing the healthcare and public health workforce
• Authorise and support LETBs
• Allocate and account for NHS education and training resources and outcomes
• Work with professional regulators/bodies on curricula
• Ensure the delivery of a professionally qualified national workforce