Consultation on quality assurance framework for healthcare education
By TJ (24-09-2007)
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Skills for Health (SfH) – the sector skills council for the public, private and voluntary healthcare sectors – is calling on everyone involved in healthcare education to make their views known during a three-month consultation process around a new Quality Assurance Framework for Healthcare Education.
Entitled EQuIP (Enhancing Quality in Partnership), the framework has been developed by SfH and its partners to support the national standard contract for healthcare education, which was published by the Department of Health in England in 2006.
The aim of the framework is to ensure that in excess of £650 million spent each year on healthcare learning programmes is used to best effect. With 75 Higher Education Institutions and more than 300 partner healthcare placement providers delivering over 2,000 healthcare education programmes, the need for simplification is clear.
Christina Pond, Executive Director of Standards and Qualifications at Skills for Health, said:
"Such a framework will be a useful tool for Strategic Health Authorities, and other healthcare education commissioners and their partners. But it can only be successfully created through collaboration - which is why we are inviting everyone involved in healthcare education to give us their views."
Visit http://www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/EQUIPconsultation.
Entitled EQuIP (Enhancing Quality in Partnership), the framework has been developed by SfH and its partners to support the national standard contract for healthcare education, which was published by the Department of Health in England in 2006.
The aim of the framework is to ensure that in excess of £650 million spent each year on healthcare learning programmes is used to best effect. With 75 Higher Education Institutions and more than 300 partner healthcare placement providers delivering over 2,000 healthcare education programmes, the need for simplification is clear.
Christina Pond, Executive Director of Standards and Qualifications at Skills for Health, said:
"Such a framework will be a useful tool for Strategic Health Authorities, and other healthcare education commissioners and their partners. But it can only be successfully created through collaboration - which is why we are inviting everyone involved in healthcare education to give us their views."
Visit http://www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/EQUIPconsultation.
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