NMC agrees to regulate new nursing associate role

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has formally agreed to a request from the Department of Health to be the regulator for the new nursing associate role.

Jackie Smith, NMC Chief Executive and Registrar of the NMC said: “After a thoughtful and thorough discussion, the NMC’s Council has agreed to a request from the Department of Health to be the regulator for the new nursing associate role.

“The Council recognised that there is strong support for the regulation of nursing associates and I have always maintained that the public would expect any role with nursing in the title to be regulated."

“As an organisation we are well-equipped to regulate nursing associates and this is a positive endorsement of our progress. We will continue to work closely with stakeholders including the Department of Health and Health Education England to ensure the successful development and implementation of this new role.”

Health Minister Philip Dunne said: “Robust professional regulation is important, so patients can continue to be confident they are receiving high quality care and I am delighted with today’s decision by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

“The introduction of the Nursing Associate role is key to strengthening the future NHS workforce and we look forward to working with them and other key stakeholders to ensure that appropriate safeguards are put in place for this new profession.”

The 2017/18 Training Needs Analysis (TNA) will be circulated to senior managers on the 1st February for completion by CBU or Corporate Service by the 1st March 2017.

The purpose of a TNA is to gather information from each service area so that we can get an overview of the learning needs of all staff across the Trust. By having a joined up approach between departments and sites we can understand what common themes are required Trust-wide making it easier to plan training and development programmes, allocate budgets, provide training to those who need it as a priority, and make the whole process easier and fairer. By understanding the full needs of the Trust we can also look at alternative ways of getting more staff through sessions and have a better buying power with external training providers.

N.B. The TNA does not guarantee funding for courses.

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Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (DCHS) developed a responsive workforce team as a way of meeting fluctuations in service demand while finding a better way of using the money spent on agency staff.
Advertised as Band 6 nursing roles, they recruited staff with a range of skills and experience who were engaged in a training programme developed specifically for the role.
In addition to achieving financial savings the initiative has proved to be an effective way of sharing good practice between teams within the trust. Patients moving from in-patient to community-based services are seen as having a better journey with fewer episodes of resubmission being reported.
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The Royal College of Midwives is asking NHS organisations to sign up to its Caring for You campaign, which aims to improve health, safety and wellbeing in maternity units. You can show your organisation’s support by downloading the campaign charter.

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Student and qualified nurses and midwives are invited to apply for a share of over £10,000 in travel placement funding and computer technology. The Cavell Nurses’ Trust’s 2017 award scheme is now open for applications until 15 February 2017.

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A new online resource AHPs into Action: Using AHPs to transform health, care and wellbeing has been launched. The resource contains contributions from over 16,000 individuals across healthcare and the public during 2016.
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