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Pre-registration education, training and development
Pre-registration education and training is changing to reflect the evolving roles of NHS health professionals. This means greater flexibility with an increased emphasis on practice during learning, and allows more responsiveness of the education system to the needs of the NHS.
Pre–registration of doctors, nurses, midwives, allied healthcare professionals and healthcare scientists in the NHS
Pre-registration describes the period of education and training that a person must undertake and successfully complete before they can register as a competent professional with one of eight regulators. The pages at the links below give information about requirements for entering pre-registration.
- Pre-registration education and funding for paramedics: guidance for SHAs, PCTs and ambulance services
- Pre-registration nursing and midwifery education and training
- Pre-registration medical education and training
- Pre-registration Healthcare Scientists education and training (opens new window)
- Pre-registration allied healthcare professional education and training (opens new window)
- NHS careers - dental team (opens new window)
- NHS careers - optometrist/ophthalmic optician (opens new window)
- General Social Care Council - training (opens new window)
NHS student support
The Government knows that health professional students are crucial to its plans to modernise the health service and provide high quality patient care. The NHS Student Grants Unit, which is part of the NHS Business Services Authority, acts on behalf of the Department of Health to process NHS Bursary applications for students.
Creating an Interprofessional Workforce (CIPW) Programme
The Creating an Interprofessional Workforce Programme (CIPW) was a 3-year project funded by the Department of Health and hosted by the South West Peninsula Strategic Health Authority.
CIPW covered all aspects of interprofessional learning and development, which make up a substantial strand of the work being done to reform undergraduate and post graduate education for nursing, allied health professions and medicine.
The programme culminated in the publication of Creating an Interprofessional Workforce: An Education and Training Framework for Health and Social Care in England on 18 September 2007
Modernising healthcare careers
We are looking for the UK-wide Modernising Healthcare Careers project to bring together and co-ordinate work on the four main strands of workforce modernisation. The main aim of MHC-UK is to coordinate UK-wide efforts to modernise the health sector workforce in terms of:
- a competence based workforce
- pay modernisation
- regulation and
- support for staff development.
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Applying for the NHS bursary childcare allowance
How students in receipt of an NHS funded bursary can apply for extra help with registered and approved childcare costs.
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