Jane Harris
Programme Director NMAHP

Scotland’s challenges
Public health record
Changes in demography
The economic environment

.....by 2020
 everyone will live longer healthier lives at home or in a homely setting
 health and social care services for adults will be integrated
 children will have the best start in life

A focus on: Prevention - Early detection - Safety –
Improved equity and access – Digital technology-
Supporting self-management- Care in communities
NHS Scotland values
• Care and compassion
• Dignity and respect
• Openness, honesty and responsibility
• Quality and teamwork
Continuous quality improvement
• Safe
• Effective
• Person-centred

Identified: s trengths and achievements in nursing and midwifery education and research
Future aim: ensuring access to the best education and development for a confident, competent and caring workforce for
2020 and beyond

Setting the Direction http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/02/4112
Summary leaflet http://www.scotland.gov.uk/settingthedirectionsummary

• Focused, concise, accessible
• Engage all stakeholders
• 6 clear strategic aims with broad goals for achieving them
– Performance (‘How are we doing this now’)
– Improvement (‘Improving what we do’)
– Combining assets to co create future
(‘Collaborating for the future’)
• Facilitate the development and implementation of the Delivery Plan

Our Approach to Setting the Direction
• Making sure we have N&M and N&M Care that meets population needs in the future
• Our legacy
• Using & building assets
• Momentum - Improving what we do now
• Naming the Game Changers
• Co-production – students and people at the heart
• Partnership -sector & professional consensus; agree first then operationalise
• Being open- knowing what we don’t know
• Challenge - asking critical questions about the things we hold dear and the others we’ve always done
• Acknowledging vested interests

Scottish Government
Ministers
SHANAHP
Scottish Heads of
Academic Nursing and
Allied Health
Professions
Preregistration
Student
Reference group
SG Health & Social
Care management
Board
Setting the Direction
Delivery Group *
1 2 3 4
Strategic aims 1 – 5 Sub-groups
5
*Strategic aim 6 (infrastructure)
Delivery Group
SENDs
Scottish
Executive Nurse
Directors
Postregistration
Student
Reference group

Develop a sustainable national approach to post-registration /postgraduate education & Continuing professional development
– 1.5 Support postgraduate development early in nursing and midwifery careers in key areas of practice, management, education and research

• Setting the Direction Launch
– 13.02.14 NHS Education for Scotland Nursing and Midwifery Recruitment and Retention Research Conference at Heriot-Watt University
• Delivery Group
– 12.02.14 ( 2014 dates – 31.03, 28.05, 29.07, 26.11)
• 5 Sub-groups
• Delivery Plan
– June to November 2014
• 2 Student Reference groups - pre-registration and postregistration/postgraduate
• Publications
Setting the Direction http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/02/4112
Summary leaflet http://www.scotland.gov.uk/settingthedirectionsummary

How we are doing this now
Improving what we do