North East & Yorkshire Regional Delivery Plan 2022/23

Health Education England (HEE) is part of the NHS, and we work with partners to plan, recruit, educate and train the health and care workforce. HEE’s long term goals are to:

•  Reform clinical education to produce the highest quality new clinical professionals in the right number. -
• Transform today’s workforce to work in a cooperative, flexible, multi-professional, digitally enabled system; and -
• Deliver and quality assure with partners education and training that is rigorous, highly sought after and future focused.

This is HEE’s 2022/23 regional delivery plan for the North East and Yorkshire (NEY). It is a public and partner-facing document which summarises what we plan to deliver, independently or with partners, in the coming year and how this contributes to our long-term goals above and to NHS-wide people-related priorities and, critically, how this supports the aims of our region’s Integrated Care Systems (ICSs).

We deliver core services for our ICSs, including planning, management and assurance of postgraduate medical, dental and pharmacy education, quality assurance across all forms of medical and clinical training, and the commissioning and contract management of education and training for a range of clinical roles. (Our commissioned programme for clinical education is known as our Multi-Professional Education and Training Investment Plan (METIP) and is included in summary at the end of this document.) We work with partners to plan, design and deliver activities that support the recovery, growth and transformation of the NEY health and care workforce.

We approach this transformation-focused work using a programme and project structure aligned to the NHS Long Term Plan and government priorities, and this year we have designed some of these programmes jointly with our colleagues in NHS England and Improvement (NHSE/I). We enable ICS and wider regional programme-focused strategy in three key ways.

Our Enabling Workforce Transformation programme leverages HEE’s workforce planning, workforce intelligence and change management capability to support transformational change at place and in strategic programmes. Our Widening Access and Education Reform programme centres our work on implementing new roles, spanning the advanced practice to apprenticeships. And our regional Best Place to Work internal OD programme ensures that as a whole HEE team we are working impactfully and with a future focus, in line with our corporate values. My team and I look forward to working with you in the coming year.

Mike Curtis, Regional Director