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Project 2000 student nurses studied for 3 years, splitting the time between class based learning, and practical placements. The first 18-month of the course was known as the common foundation programme and provided basic grounding in 4 nursing discipline: Adult, Child, Mental Health and Learning Disability care.
N3 was a national broadband network for the English National Health Service (NHS), connecting all NHS locations and 1.3 million employees across England. As of 2018 it was being phased out. In 2004, BT was awarded the contract to deliver and manage the IT project on behalf of the NHS. [6]
In 1994, the UK Government introduced Modern Apprenticeships (renamed Apprenticeships in England, Wales and Northern Ireland), based on frameworks today of the Sector Skills Councils. In 2009, the National Apprenticeship Service was founded to coordinate apprenticeships in England. Apprenticeship frameworks contain a number of separately ...
Apprenticeships programmes have recently been introduced, as an alternative pathway for individuals to train as ODPs. Apprentices are required to complete an HCPC-approved BSc (Hons) degree in Operating Department Practice, whilst additionally meeting the required 15 standards set out in the Care Certificate within three months of commencement.
It introduced a quango, the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS). The National Skills Director of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) was to be in charge of the NAS. The LSC at the time had had most of its funding farmed out to local authorities. The NAS was to be part of the LSC, as outlined in the government's 2008 document on apprenticeships.
A joint commissioning board was established including Clinical Commissioning Groups, local authorities and NHS England - but not general practitioners. [5] Lord Peter Smith, leader of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council was the first chair of the board. Social care was identified as a major problem very early on, and there was a target to reduce ...
NHS Professionals supplies clinical and non-clinical temporary staff to the NHS and provides workforce services to health and care organisations. It operates a membership base of healthcare professionals (known as 'Bank Members') who work flexible shifts and longer-term placements at more than 130 acute and community NHS Trusts and other health and care organisations across the UK and the ...
The Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network is an employer-led body sponsored by the Skills Funding Agency in England. Its remit is to encourage more employers to become involved in apprenticeships in England. The Network is the successor body to the Apprenticeship Task Force established by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.