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Mapping the progress of skills escalator activity: Early results from a survey of Learning Account and NVQ Managers in Strategic Health Authorities - Phase 1: Part I report

This report contains some early findings from a research project, commissioned by the Department of Health, on skills escalator activity in the NHS and social care community. The skills escalator aims to attract a wider range of people to work in the NHS whilst also supporting career potential and development across its workforce. Through investing in a lifelong learning approach, the NHS seeks to encourage staff to new ways of working which extend their current skills and contribute to wider service/process redesign and improvements in health services. This report starts with an overview of the project and research methodology. It continues with five chapters of findings from Phase 1: Part 1. The report concludes with the identification of key issues for future research within the project.