Derbyshire Local Education
and Training Council:
Opportunities and Challenges
Jackie Hewlett-Davies
July 2013
Changes to Workforce, Education
& Training as Part of NHS Reform
• Health & Social Care Bill 2012 set out changes to the systems
supporting workforce planning, education & training
• New body, Health Education England, responsible for investment of
£5 billion national funding (MPET)
• 13 Local Education & Training Boards in England
• Responsible for putting together a Workforce Development Strategy
& investment plan for education funding based on employers’ needs
www.em.hee.nhs.uk
Health Education England
• Purpose: to support the delivery of excellent healthcare
and health improvement to the patients and the public of
England, by ensuring that our workforce has the right
numbers, skills, values and behaviours, at the right time
and in the right place
• Held to account by DH through the Education Outcomes
Framework & annual Education Operating Framework
• HEE will hold LETBs to account for their investment of
MPET funding through a service level agreement
www.em.hee.nhs.uk
East Midlands Local Education & Training Board
• Core Purpose: Develop a high quality, safe and
sustainable workforce to meet the health care needs of
the people of the East Midlands
• Incorporates EMSHA Workforce & Education Team and
the Postgraduate Deanery functions
• Established to be ‘provider-led’ with an executive team
with non executive membership of the Board from NHS
employers and education providers in the East Midlands
• Responsible for developing an EM workforce
development strategy and ensuring the £380 million
MPET is invested to meet service priorities
www.em.hee.nhs.uk
Derbyshire Local Education and
Training Council
• EMLETB will be supported by building on the existing local
community workforce infrastructure
• The LETC will be responsible for articulating the workforce
development priorities & risks for the locality
• The LETC will be inclusive of new partners in HWB Boards, Service
Commissioners, Primary Care, Medical & Nursing, Independent
Sector
• Operating principles & vision for the future workforce have been
agreed through engagement workshops
• Work is ongoing to develop an operating model that will
complement the LETB model
www.em.hee.nhs.uk
Stakeholder Engagement Circles
Of Influence: Derbyshire
www.em.hee.nhs.uk
East Midlands 2011-12 Education
and Training Budget by Local
Health Community
www.em.hee.nhs.uk
Derbyshire Workforce Development Plan
2013
• Three year plan, refreshed annually, setting out the
workforce and training implications of the changes in
service delivery – current and future
• Provides an evidence base to inform investment of
education & training funding at EMLETB, Derbyshire and
organisational levels
• Provides a focus for system wide partnership working to
deliver a workforce with the right skills, knowledge and
behaviour
• Enables stakeholders to have a shared, consistent voice
on what our priorities are for investment and
development
www.em.hee.nhs.uk
What We Need From You:
Providers/Employers
• High quality, robust workforce development plans to
provide an evidence base from which to influence LETB
decision making
• Education investment aligned to service priorities &
accountability for MPET funding
• High quality delivery of education and training
demonstrating achievement of the requirements of the
Education Outcomes Framework & LDAs
www.em.hee.nhs.uk
Key Priorities in Health & Social Care
• Winterbourne View and Francis Reports into failures in
care
• Cavendish Review into quality of health and care
assistants
• ‘Nicholson challenge’ to achieve £20 billion in
efficiencies by 2015
• Focus on attitudes and behaviours of all staff
• Compassion, dignity and respect in care
www.em.hee.nhs.uk
What we need from education & training providers
• Flexibility and responsiveness – willingness to
tailor provision to meet our needs rather than ‘off
the shelf’
• Expertise on how to maximise our opportunities
to access any available funding for
provision/apprenticeships or other models
• Support to build in evaluation of impact on
quality of care/confidence of our workforce to
challenge poor practice
www.em.hee.nhs.uk
What we need from education & training providers
• Public service values embedded into all provision for
health and social care staff in statutory and
private/voluntary sector
• NHS Constitution sets out values of compassion, dignity
and respect and courage to challenge and report poor
practice
• Embedding Cavendish Review recommendations into
provision for health & care assistants
• Certificate in Fundamental Care, bridging programmes,
higher apprenticeships and other innovative options
• Career development framework for care assistants
www.em.hee.nhs.uk
Contact Information
• Please contact us if you would like support or to discuss
the new arrangements in more detail on 01332 258180
• Contact me on jackie.hewlett-davies2@nhs.net
• EMLETB website www.eastmidlandsletb.net
• Visit www.eastmidlandsworkforce.nhs.uk/Derbyshire to
see the latest information from the team
• Find us on Twitter through @DerbysLETCWT for latest
updates about the team’s activity
www.em.hee.nhs.uk