Project Details
Overview
Background
Due to increasing pressures including an ageing population, overwhelmed health service, and workforce shortages, immediate changes are needed to meet the needs of society. The NHS 10 Year Plan made bold commitments to transformation including shifts from hospital to community, sickness to prevention, and analogue to digital. These commitments have ramifications for how educators train the healthcare professionals of the future. Achieving these NHS “shifts” will be contingent on a modernised workforce who will be responsible for translating strategy into routine practice. Despite this, there is limited professional guidance or stipulations concerning the NHS priorities, and little is known about what level of education is offered, the format of provisions, and the challenges encountered by educators when integrating the NHS “shifts” into curricula.
This research project comprises three connected phases:
• A review of professional competency frameworks/standards to consolidate essential learning domains relevant to the three shifts in healthcare curricula.
• A descriptive analysis of current practice in the pre-registration curricula through surveys, interviews and observations, along with identifying organisational enablers and barriers to education delivery.
• A series of case study evaluations of innovative education delivery specifically relating to the three shifts.
Research Outputs and Impact
The project will compliment concurrent strategy generation including the CNO strategy and Digital Academy workforce strategy by:
• Providing a consolidated framework of learning competencies across the NHS “shifts” for nursing, midwifery, and allied health professions.
• Providing a comprehensive map of the curricula in England in relation to the NHS “shifts”.
• Identifying gaps in the current curricula and providing evidence-informed recommendations to support the implementation of a modernised curriculum.
Funding Competition
In addition to our research project surveying programme/module leads (live survey link in the sidebar), we are inviting applications for funding of up to £10,000, which can be used to develop outputs which showcase educational innovations related to these themes in nursing, midwifery or allied health professional programmes in England. The funding guidance (in the sidebar) outlines how to apply. The deadline is 12/2/26 which an anticipated start date of 1/3/26 for 4 month projects.
Due to increasing pressures including an ageing population, overwhelmed health service, and workforce shortages, immediate changes are needed to meet the needs of society. The NHS 10 Year Plan made bold commitments to transformation including shifts from hospital to community, sickness to prevention, and analogue to digital. These commitments have ramifications for how educators train the healthcare professionals of the future. Achieving these NHS “shifts” will be contingent on a modernised workforce who will be responsible for translating strategy into routine practice. Despite this, there is limited professional guidance or stipulations concerning the NHS priorities, and little is known about what level of education is offered, the format of provisions, and the challenges encountered by educators when integrating the NHS “shifts” into curricula.
This research project comprises three connected phases:
• A review of professional competency frameworks/standards to consolidate essential learning domains relevant to the three shifts in healthcare curricula.
• A descriptive analysis of current practice in the pre-registration curricula through surveys, interviews and observations, along with identifying organisational enablers and barriers to education delivery.
• A series of case study evaluations of innovative education delivery specifically relating to the three shifts.
Research Outputs and Impact
The project will compliment concurrent strategy generation including the CNO strategy and Digital Academy workforce strategy by:
• Providing a consolidated framework of learning competencies across the NHS “shifts” for nursing, midwifery, and allied health professions.
• Providing a comprehensive map of the curricula in England in relation to the NHS “shifts”.
• Identifying gaps in the current curricula and providing evidence-informed recommendations to support the implementation of a modernised curriculum.
Funding Competition
In addition to our research project surveying programme/module leads (live survey link in the sidebar), we are inviting applications for funding of up to £10,000, which can be used to develop outputs which showcase educational innovations related to these themes in nursing, midwifery or allied health professional programmes in England. The funding guidance (in the sidebar) outlines how to apply. The deadline is 12/2/26 which an anticipated start date of 1/3/26 for 4 month projects.
Project Aims
The aim of the research is to explore what curricula is being delivered, across the NHS priorities, in English pre-registration programmes.
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 1/10/25 → 1/10/26 |