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NHS workers take healthy approach to learning

By TJ (20-06-2007)
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Celebrations were held to mark the success of a pilot scheme to help North West NHS workers gain qualifications and increase their skills. The event at the Warrington Wolves Rugby League Club stadium involved representatives from a dozen North West health trusts and hospitals, eleven colleges and the TUC’s learning and skills organisation, unionlearn.

The pilot scheme is the result of collaboration between the Learning and Skills Council, national adult literacy and numeracy organisation Move On, the strategic health authority NHS Northwest, health trusts, adult care workforce organisation Skills for Health, unionlearn, the union Unison and NHS Academy North West, which encourages people to find employment in the NHS and improve their skills.

The schemes which help workers gain nationally-recognised qualifications in numeracy and literacy are to be extended across the North West, making it possible for thousands of health workers to add skills and qualifications to their CV. 

The 33 to 39-hour courses were designed to be delivered in three-hour sessions. As well as numeracy and literacy, the courses covered subjects such as communication skills, management and customer service. Such training helps health trusts meet their learning and development objectives and helps staff gain skills and qualifications necessary to rise up the NHS career ladder.

For unionlearn, the project was just one of many workplace learning schemes it has helped set up across the North West as part of Skills for Life, the Government’s strategy for improving numeracy and literacy in the UK workforce.

 

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