SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE PARTNERSHIP QUALITY ASSURANCE FRAMEWORK FOR HEALTH CARE EDUCATION

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SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE PARTNERSHIP
QUALITY ASSURANCE FRAMEWORK FOR HEALTH CARE
EDUCATION ENGLAND17 JUNE 2005QA OF
HEALTHCARE EDUCATION PURPOSE AND
DEVELOPMENTJohn EnnisHead of NHS Quality
Assurance (Education)
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Why Quality Assurance (QA)?

• To drive quality enhancement
• To ensure accountability
• To support choice by providing information to the
  public, employers and potential employees

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Why a Partnership Quality Assurance Framework
(PQAF)?

• To achieve the objectives of QA as efficiently
  as possible by streamlining and integrating
  processes, leading to reduced burden on NHS and
  HEIs

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Who are the Partners?

• Strategic Health Authorities
• Health Professions Council
• Nursing and Midwifery Council

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A Conceptual Framework for Quality Assurance

• Fit for purpose
• Fit for purpose (employers)
• Fit for award (HEIs)
• Fit for practice (regulators)
• Continues

• Practitioners in service
• Learners completing ET
• programmes

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• Continued
• Programmes of ET Of high quality in use
  (OQME Major Review)
• Fit for purpose at Approval
• Systems of Fit for purpose
• Quality Assurance

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What is the current scope of the PQAF?

• SHA-commissioned award-bearing programmes of
  learning in nursing, midwifery and allied health
  professions
• Pre- and post-registration programmes
• More than 1.5 bn
• 75,000 students
• 75 HEIs

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What are the elements of the PQAF?

• Benchmarks and Quality Standards
• Shared Evidence Base
• Programme Approval
• Ongoing Quality Monitoring and Enhancement (OQME)
• Major Review

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continuous quality improvement
Evidence base
Approval
Major Review
On going quality monitoring enhancement
Benchmarks and quality standards
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What are the key policy links?

• MPET contract for healthcare education (under
  reform)
• Cross-government support for Concordats
• Healthcare Commissions framework
• Work of the Higher Education
• Regulation Review Group (HERRG)

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What is the role of the Quality Assurance Agency
for Higher Education (QAA)?

• Skills for Healths contractor for QA in
  healthcare education
• QAAs own wider role, across Higher Education

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What are the next steps?

• A stocktake of the Partnership
• A new key stakeholders group?
• Evaluation of current OQME and Approval
  prototypes
• . continues
  

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What are the next steps?
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• Assessment of scope for encompassing informal as
  well as formal learning
• Learning from international good practice in QA
• Plans for England-wide implementation of PQAF