Education Transformation

The Clinical Placement Expansion Project started at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) in March 2021. The Trusts put forward a bid to Health Education England (HEE) for involvement in developing and expanding placement capacity across Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), Nursing and Midwifery by using digital solutions. The Trust have been successful in receiving the funding from HEE and the main aim of the project was to purchase four mixed reality headsets (HoloLens2).

The Health and Wellbeing Outreach programme for undergraduate learners was funded by Health Education England (HEE). Universities in the North West of England were tasked with developing innovative ways their health and social care undergraduate students could
highlight issues around health and wellbeing in their local communities – particularly in school settings and offer an age appropriate health and wellbeing intervention.

Several North West universities took part, each developing different approaches:

This project is a bespoke approach enabling clinical and non-clinical staff to consolidate and extend their Cumbria Learning & Improvement Collaborative (CLIC) leadership learning (see Background section). The programme culminates in the delivery of a range of clinical leadership and improvement work-based projects and participants are awarded a Postgraduate Diploma.

This page provides information for those facilitating and/or assessing work based learning of Assistant Practitioners.

The following documents are attached to this page:

• Supporting the Trainee Assistant Practitioner Guidance Document
• Guidance for the Assistant Practitioner in Perioperative Care
• Preceptor Framework

Assistant Practitioner (AP) Resources main page

This section contains contact information for Ambassadors of the Assistant Practitioner role in the North West. You will also discover some best practice suggestions together with potential benefits of the role.

The following documents are attached to this page:

This page contains information on Assistant Practitioners across a wide range of services.

The following documents are attached to this page:

If you have implemented a new role within your service over the last year, and are seeking to establish the benefits of the role. This section includes; Role Impact Evaluation Tool to systematically gather data; case study on evaluation of the Assistant Practitioner within a hospice;  report on how Assistant Practitioners can progress (including  ongoing organisational implementation).

The Assistant Practitioner (AP) role was introduced more than a decade ago to address a skills shortage within the health and social care workforce. The AP is a “higher level support worker who compliments the registered staff and transcends traditional boundaries of care” (Skills for Health, 2009).

Supporting innovation and improvement by transforming the way in which evidence is applied in the commissioning of health and care services. A collaborative initiative between Innovation Agency (Academic Health Science Network for the North West Coast) and CETAD, Lancaster University. The postgraduate programme is a unique, enhanced, evidence based approach to health and care services commissioning that aims to support a culture of innovation, improvement and transformation.