HEE Vision, Purpose, Operating Model and Plan on a Page

Health Education England exists for one reason only: our vision is to help improve the quality of life and health and care services for the people of England by ensuring the workforce of today and tomorrow has the right skills, values and behaviours, in the right numbers, at the right time and in the right place.

Our purpose as part of the NHS, is to work with partners to plan, recruit, educate and train the health workforce.

We are people centred, committed to the NHS Constitution, and driven by our values of responsibility, inclusiveness, fairness, and confidence.

Our goals are to deliver and reform education to produce the best possible future workforce; to transform the current workforce to meet tomorrow’s health and care needs; and ensure the quality of our education and training system.

We serve

• Patients and population
• Partners and stakeholders
• Students and trainees

HEE’s Operating Model turns our vision and purpose into action and outcomes. It is how we do our business now and how we will work with ICSs and the new NHS leadership organisation as we build it during this transition year. Integration, subsidiarity, multi-professionalism, sustainability, and continuous improvement is the core to our approach.

We also published separate guidance on how our regions will collaborate with ICSs based on NHSE/I’s (now NHS England (NHSE) as of July 2022) 10 ICS People function outcome areas set within an ‘all levers, all levels’ integrated planning framing.

Our updated Plan on a Page shows the alignment of our purpose, strategic goals, objectives, internal improvement programmes which are our foundations for success, and our values.

Plan on a page

HEE is part of the NHS, and we work with partners to plan, recruit, educate and train the health workforce.

Future Workforce

Reform clinical education to produce the highest quality new clinical professionals ever in the right number.

Objectives

• Support delivery of domestic education and training supply to meet NHS need with the required placement capacity expansion
• Develop a new strategic planning framework based on integrated workforce planning
• Continue to deliver the NHS Long-Term Plan priorities and Manifesto commitments
• Through global health partnerships, we will increase the quantity and quality of staff working in the NHS
• Deliver education and training reform to address health inequalities and facilitate multi-professional team working.

​Current Workforce

Transform today’s workforce to work in a co-operative, flexible, multi-professional, digitally enabled system.

Objectives

• Support Integrated Care Systems with new ways of working and workforce redesign
• Adapt education and training to help the workforce become digitally competent and confident and embrace new technology
• We will expand advanced practice opportunities to build multi-disciplinary teams and a more flexible workforce
• Further strengthen the training, learning and development for support staff and volunteers.

​Quality

Assure and deliver with partners, quality education and training that is rigorous, highly sought after and future focused.

Objectives

• Embed our Quality Strategy and Framework to drive a more consistent and systematic approach to quality assurance, and improvement
• Enhance the quality and safety of maternity services, by delivering the planned future workforce and ensuring the quality of their training
• Ensure the learner voice is heard and acted upon by using data and insight to measure, monitor and improve the quality of the learner experience.

Best Place to Work

We will collaborate to maximise our individual and collective potential by becoming a great place to work.

Continuous Quality Improvement

We will operate a culture of continuous improvement in the delivery of our priorities.

Governance & Decision Making

We will be well governed with fair, timely, inclusive and evidence-based decision making.

Digital First

We will engender the right culture, environment and support to enable all HEE staff to create the best digital services for our users.

Partnership, Co-operation and Collaboration

We will work with partners to deliver shared priorities to improve the NHS.

Value for Money

We will spend money wisely to achieve our intended outcomes.

Sustainability

We will have regard to sustainability in relation to our use of resources.

Our Values

Responsible, Inclusive, Confident and Fair.