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Working Together with Health Information annex: the education, training and development strategy's target audience

  • Last modified date:
    8 February 2007

Overview

People in different roles will need different sorts of guidance and help. Foremost in mind when this strategy was written were people who have a direct role to play in implementing Education, Training and Development for Information for Health. However the needs of a wider range of people with an interest in the strategy were also taken into account.

Detail

This strategy document is intended to help anyone whose responsibilities include:

  • Implementing Information for Health  programmes
  • Implementing information management aspects of other developments arising from the White Paper The new NHS. Modern . Dependable
  • Setting standards for, commissioning, managing or providing education, training and development for NHS staff.
  • Workforce planning

In particular this audience includes:

  • Staff involved in developing and implementing Local Information Strategies (LISs) and particularly those responsible for LIS training plans
  • Staff involved in developing and implementing Clinical Governance Development Plans (CGDPs) and those responsible for the associated training component
  • Education commissioners (such as NHS Education Consortia, Regional Education and Development Groups (REDGs), and Postgraduate Deans)
  • Education providers such as Universities and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
  • Local NHS training departments
  • Information for Health implementation groups
  • Clinical Governance implementation groups
  • Information Management and Technology (IM&T) Training staff
  • Information Management and Technology staff
  • Information project leaders in Health Authorities, NHS Trusts and Primary Care
  • NHS Executive Policy Leads
  • NHS Information Authority Project Managers
  • Professional, advisory and regulatory bodies (including Strategy Partner Organisations)
  • Regional Heads of Information, Regional Personnel and Organisation Development specialists, Regional Directors of Education, Regional Office Education Leads, Directors of Implementation, Regional Librarians
  • Suppliers of hardware and software

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