Health Education
North Central and East London
May 2015
HE NCEL News
Inside this issue
2  Welcome
Therese Davis, Director
3  Clinical Academic Careers
3  Perinatal Mental Health
4  The Care Certificate
5  Research Clinician – now available to all London academic trainees
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HE NCEL News
Welcome | Therese Davis, Director
It’s been just over a month since I formally started as the Director for Health
Education North Central and East London (HE NCEL) and I’d like to start this
newsletter by saying a big thank you and farewell to Chris Fowler, Helen
Jameson and Margaret Murphy. I know the whole team join me in saying thank
you for making HE NCEL what it is today. I’d like to welcome new members to
the HE NCEL team and thank all current staff for their continued hard work
through a time of change.
In HE NCEL we are continuing our focus on collaboration across the area. In
2013/2014 we worked with stakeholders to establish five Community Education
Provider Networks (CEPNs) and following their success we have supported five
further CEPNs so there is now complete coverage in North Central and East
London (NCEL). CEPNs are groups of primary and community care organisations
that come together with partner organisations to collaborate with regard to
workforce, education and training.
Apprenticeship schemes have also been high on our agenda over the last year
to support with widening participation across the NHS workforce. They provide
people with differing levels of experience an opportunity to have a year of
paid employment in various NHS roles while studying for a qualification. In
NCEL there have been 429 apprentices in placements in the NHS in 2014/15, an
increase of 26% from the year before which is great progress. This achievement
is the result of successful partnership working and a joint commitment to this
project from colleagues in Trusts across the area. We are committed in HE NCEL
to doubling the number of apprenticeships by March 2016.
To meet the increased demand in the community for more practice nurses and
in line with the HEE Mandate, we have increased the number of commissions in
NCEL to over 80. These are made up of foundation programmes for nurses new
to General Practice, degree pathways for nurses working in General Practice to
qualify in speciality, and masters programmes for experienced General Practice
Nurses to undertake advanced nurse practitioner training.
Building on the success of the dementia project in 2014/15, 29,416 NHS
employees have now received dementia training in NCEL. The next stage of the
project is to roll out Tier 2 training in the area and undertake a robust evaluation
of the impact of training delivered to date.
We also have our next Members and Stakeholders Council
meeting in September 2015 to look at workforce planning. If
you would like to attend or for more information about any of
the projects mentioned in this newsletter, please email me and
the team at [email protected].
Therese Davis
Director
Health Education North Central and East London
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Clinical Academic Careers
HE NCEL with the other LETBs in London have
worked together to design and offer a shared
‘pre-masters’ internship programme for aspiring
non-medical clinical academics in London with
the explicit aim of providing ‘Interns’ with the
requisite skills, knowledge and competence to
enable them to access an Master of Research
(MRes) programme in London.
There are nine interns in NCEL from nursing,
midwifery, AHP and psychological therapies. We
have also funded eight healthcare professionals
to undertake full or part-time MRes
programmes at City University London and three
nurse fellows at the CLAHRC - Collaboration for
Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care.
Perinatal Mental Health
The Perinatal Mental Health project is a
collaborative project between acute trusts,
mental health trusts and CCGs in NCEL and
is being coordinated through the London
Perinatal Mental Health Network.
Mental health problems affect over one in ten
women during pregnancy and the first year
after childbirth, and can have a devastating
impact on them and their families. Early
detection and intervention can significantly
reduce or prevent the lasting effects on the
mother and child.
This unique project has developed a programme
for perinatal parent-infant mental health
training. The goal is to develop a sustainable
and replicable learning model that builds
capacity and capability within local health and
social care systems around perinatal mental
healthcare.
A model has successfully piloted across three
CCGs and will be scaled up across NCEL in
2015/16.
For more information, please contact info@
ncel.hee.nhs.uk.
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HE NCEL News
The Care Certificate
One of the key recommendations from the
Francis Inquiry was for greater education
and training for the unregistered workforce
and as a result the Care Certificate is now
being rolled out to new starters in health
and social care in these roles.
Health Education England, Skills for Care
and Skills for Health have worked together
to develop the Care Certificate which aims
to ensure employees have the appropriate
knowledge, skills, behaviours and values to
deliver safe and compassionate care.
Staff are required to complete 15 standards
over a three month period. Across NCEL
collaborative work has taken place with
three pilot sites - Islington; Great Ormond
Street Hospital, and Waltham Forest, East
London and City (WELC) - to review the
15 standards and how to roll out the Care
Certificate in practice.
HENCEL recently held a Care Certificate
event for service providers from acute,
mental health, community and primary
care, which enabled the three NCEL pilot
sites to share their experiences. Middlesex
University also presented the findings from
their evaluation of the Islington Pilot site.
Evidence suggests that the care certificate
is valued by Health Care Assistants and
employers and will raise the standards of
induction across all sectors.
The three London Local Education and
Training Boards and Health Education Kent
Surrey and Sussex are developing additional
London-wide guidance and resources for
primary care providers to assist with the
implementation of the Care Certificate in
primary care.
For more details, FAQs and document
downloads please visit the HENCEL
website or contact us at [email protected].
nhs.uk.
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Issue 1
Education Programme in Cardiovascular Disease for GPs
and primary healthcare teams in North Central & East
London
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) affects the lives of millions of
people and is one of the largest causes of death and disability
in the UK. Whilst NHS health checks screen millions of people
age of 40-74, many opportunities to identify and manage CVD
are often missed. GPs and primary healthcare staff will require
additional education and resources to identify at risk patients.
To address these needs, Barts Health NHS Trust has developed an
innovative CVD educational programme funded by HE NCEL. This
will support Primary Care teams in all 12 CCGs in NCEL to develop
and deliver cardiovascular disease education to healthcare
practitioners, allied healthcare professionals and practice
administration staff.
The project will deliver CVD education through partnership
working, CCG engagement and local training.
By developing a skilled workforce that can access high quality
educational materials and by building stronger relationships
between primary and secondary care, the CVD project will help
improve the patient experience through deeper integration and
collaboration between healthcare providers.
For more information, please email [email protected].
“The project has
made remarkable
achievements in a
short space of time.
The framework is
established with clear
objectives and key
players in primary care
have been identified
and are working with
us. We now need to
sustain this…”
Dr Sandy Gupta, MD
FRCP, Clinical Co-Chair
of the CVD Education
Programme and
Consultant Cardiologist
at Whipps Cross/Barts
Health NHS Trusts
Research Clinician – now available to all London academic
trainees
A new learning resource, Research Clinician, is now available to all integrated academic trainees
across the capital. It is a collaborative venture between the three London Local Education and
Training Boards (LETBs) and the seven London-based providers of academic clinical training. It aims
to provide a common set of eLearning content using a bespoke, blog-based collaborative learning
platform, developed with The Institute of Cancer Research based on their existing academic learning
platform, Lab Book. The new platform provides short, blog-style posts (around 500 words). These can
be opinion and experience-based pieces and ideally link users to further reading on given topics. A
key role of the platform is to signpost existing support resources.
The majority of the site content is generic (provided to all participating institutions) but there is also
a local category for when local procedures or requirements need to be highlighted.
Research Clinician is available at: https://www.research-clinician.ac.uk/.
A formal launch event is taking place on Wednesday 20th May at the Wellcome Trust, with guest
speakers Professor Sir John Tooke (President, Academy of Medical Sciences), Dr John Williams (Head
of Science Strategy, Wellcome Trust) and Professor Geraint Rees (UCL and Francis Crick Institute).
For more details, please email [email protected].
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