NHS Improvement has produced draft guidance on safe staffing management for nursing associates. Employers are invited to submit feedback on the draft document by Wednesday 12 December 2018.

NHS Improvement intends to publish this guidance as an appendix to the set of safe staffing resources already available. This is to provide healthcare professionals and others with the tools to ensure they can safely and effectively integrate the nursing associate role into hospital and community care settings.

The resource has been drafted with input from senior nurses, clinicians, workforce colleagues and regulatory and government organisations including the Department of Health and Social Care and the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

To view the staff staffing draft document and the consultation please visit the NHS Improvement website.

Have your say on the draft guidance
If you would like to share your thoughts with NHS Employers, please email Robyn.Swain@nhsemployers.org by Monday 3rd December 2018. Alternatively, you can submit your individual responses directly to NHS Improvement by Wednesday 12 December 2018.

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We want to hear your ideas on 5 main areas to make things better for people working in health and care. Your comments will feed into the development of the long term plan for the NHS and the Social Care Green Paper. 
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With flu vaccination season approaching and trusts getting ready to start their local campaigns to promote the flu jab, here’s a reminder of the facts behind flu and how being vaccinated helps protect staff and patients.

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BestEvidence is a free web-based app available for clinicians to get access to research and guidelines.

City University of London, funded the development of BestEvidence in order to facilitate the use of research evidence to inform and improve learning, practice and policy and thereby improve patient outcomes.

To get the app on your device, smartphone, tablet or desktop computers, go to www.BestEvidence.Info

The development of research capability and capacity for the Integrated Clinical Professions is an important priority.  To support this Health Education England (working across the North), with the support of NHS R&D North West,  has launched applications for the Health Education England North / NIHR BRIDGING SCHEME.
 
This Bridging Scheme offers the opportunities for Nurses, Midwifes, Allied Health Professionals, Pharmacist or Healthcare Scientists with a keen interest in pursuing a clinical research & academic career to apply for funding to support their development  with a particular focus in supporting their development and work towards a successful NIHR Fellowship application.   This scheme is particularly targeted at those clinical colleagues who have completed a Masters Level Degree and are looking to undertake a PhD or are seeking a Post-Doctoral Fellowship.
 
For full application details please visit Here.  Please note that applications for this high value development opportunity will close at 5pm Monday 17th September.

Take a look at the infographic below exploring the different routes into nursing for employers. Until recently, the routes to developing registered nurses within the workforce have been limited, with the university degree being the main way to train this group of staff. 
The introduction of the nursing degree apprenticeship gives a new opportunity for employers to train nurses, while the creation of the new nursing associate role can help to be a bridge between healthcare assistants and graduate registered nurses. These new routes can create a confusing picture for employers and so the infographic has been developed to support you to make the most of the new and existing routes into nursing.

• You can learn more about each of the different routes and good practice here.
• Click on the image to download the PDF
  

Health Education England is encouraging young people to consider degrees in nursing and the allied health professions, highlighting the high employment rates and the chance to make a difference to people’s lives.

Access resources to promote these careers to undergraduates here 

Health Education England (HEE) has launched a series of films for overseas nurses and their trainers to help support transition and integration into UK practice.
The new resource consists of several training videos aimed at familiarising overseas nurses to UK clinical environments, and to offer some insights and orientation to simulation based clinical scenarios. The resource is intended to be a support at the point of registration and is not a guide to passing the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) exam as part of the Nursing and Midwifery Council part 2 test of competence. It does however offer tips and signpost to references that may be beneficial in preparing for the OSCE exam.
The films were developed at the request of NHS nurse educators who are tasked with supporting and integrating newly appointed international nurse recruits. The content is based on the Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures (9th Edition) and the European Resuscitation Council Guidelines (2015).
To help support the integration of overseas nurses into UK practice, employers are encouraged to share the resource with new recruits. They can download the training videos and use them flexibly as a revision aid.

*Credits: NHS Employers