Discussion Note
NES Healthcare Science Advisory Committee
Meeting 29-05-15
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Programme Director summary forward look AG3 DISCUSSION NOTE 1
Rob Farley
Review
In 2014NES Healthcare Science offered CPD opportunities to staff around Scotland to
assist with basic leadership development and support for trainers. We continued with our
Early Career Programme, a 5-day development offer over three months for around 60
junior staff. Early Career is based on pre-existing modules used for medical trainees
albeit in a healthcare science context. The course prepares junior staff and fosters
networking with scientific peers from unrelated departments; it is now an essential
element in postgraduate scientist training to achieve registration..
Our similar offer from NES – Refreshing Leadership – was delivered to around 50 staff
who are at a mid-grade point in their careers.
We also ran a train-the-trainer programme around Scotland to over 60 staff, specifically
modified this year to explore concepts such as Direct Observation of Practical Skills,
Cased-based Discussion, and Observed Clinical Events.
All our events for Healthcare Science are available on the NES Portal, and we have
promoted generic NES offers to the group including Human Factors and Educating for
Patient Safety.
In 2014-15 we contributed to: 39 biomedical scientists and clinical physiologists entering
masters-level postgraduate scientist training; and 6 pre-registration clinical
physiologists. We also secured funding for 9 supernumerary clinical technologists to
undertake a 2 year work-based development programme in support of medical physics
services. We recruited 24 pre-registration supernumerary postgraduate clinical
scientist trainees. Of these, 12 began the new form Scientist Training Programme (STP
training). Postgraduate’s and supervisor’s survey: 62% and 69% response respectively.
Nationally, we led on two important events: in June we ran our Healthcare Science
event. We received a favourable report from the Academy for Healthcare Science on
mapping Scottish training arrangements against new STP (postgraduate) and PTP
(graduate) curricula arising from Modernising Scientific Careers. In November, we also
led on a four-country Healthcare Science event in Edinburgh that explored HCS
contribution to shared NHS challenges.
Discussion Note
NES Healthcare Science Advisory Committee
2015 Plan
CPD / Courses: Train-the-trainer; trainees-in-difficulty; and Early Career; Refreshing
Leadership.
Events: June 19th COSLA National HCS event, AHCS Congress – Dec 2015 Edinburgh
Communication: NES Knowledge Network. Dedicated HCS communities sites. (Athens
Login required) http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/home.aspx
Sites: HCS Leads, HCS Trainees, HCS NES-Courses support - all active
Newsletter <10> http://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/education-and-training/by-discipline/healthcarescience/all-healthcare-science/publications/healthcare-science-notice-board-10-summer2015.aspx
Practitioner support: Clinical Physiology, year 1 support, Audiology / Neurophysiology /
cardiac Physiology / Respiratory Physiology. In dialogue with GCU over revalidation.
Position statement regards sponsorship of application to AHCS PSA-approved register
Postgraduate Scientist trainees - bursary support ~60 applicants,
Supernumerary Clinical Scientist intake 17-20 anticipated, mainly STP
2015 Trainee & supervisor surveys later this year
High Specialist Scientific Training – in dialogue with Scottish Government
NES HCS infrastructure: appoint Specialty Leads (covering HCS themes) 0.2 WTE 8B
Quality management admissions/practice placement (HCS deanery-like function Scotland).
MOU with AHCS and National School for Healthcare Science anticipated
Advice sought
How does this level of activity feel?
Do people have a particular view about our focus / rationale?