Our goals and objectives

Restoration and recovery of NHS services

Our Postgraduate Medical Education Recovery Programme will reset, recover and reform education and training to minimise the impact on progression; support trainee and educator wellbeing and training recovery; and improve and boost resilience in the medical pipeline.

Every trainee will be offered individual conversations to identify their training and wellbeing needs. With the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and educators we are exploring options for gaining competencies and tailoring training activities to individual learning needs. We will enhance training opportunities, including improved access to training in the independent sector, facilitate movement between employers and accelerate digital and remote training solutions.

We are investing £25m to reduce the need for training extensions, which pose a personal risk to trainees and system cost risk to the NHS. We are also publishing innovative and effective solution case studies which we will evaluate to inform future education reform.

HEE is also investing in simulation, immersive technologies and Technology Enhanced Learning resources to help mitigate the pandemic’s impact across professions. This will offer adaptable solutions locally and nationally.

The recovery of elective services requires maximising workforce availability. We will also continue to invest in skills development, building workforce capacity, transformation and planning including providing data and tools to enable integrated planning. Our support for elective care recovery will primarily focus on mental health, cancer and diagnostic care, intensive and critical care and respiratory services.

We have strengthened our work with NHSE, ICSs and providers to dovetail responsibility for immediate workforce supply with provider’s focus on retention, recruitment, job design, in-house training, team working and pay. We will also develop the ‘Elective Care Recovery – Innovative Practice Repository’ of case studies for ICSs.

Aligning training recovery and our Regional Transformation teams will help unify service planning and regional elective care recovery. This is alongside expanding placement capacity at a time when patient services are very stretched recognising that educators who are essential to future workforce supply are also under pressure. As we create the new organisation, we will support ICSs to plan how workforce skills and capacity can increase to respond to patient needs.

Measuring progress

Board Assurance Framework Opportunities supported: 2 and 3

HEE strategic goals and objectives 2022/23

Our objectives reflect our purpose and help deliver our strategic goals although we will build flexibility and review into objectives to reflect potential consequences of COVID-19.

Future workforce goal - Reform clinical education to produce the highest quality new clinical professionals ever in the right number.

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

Quality and patient safety goal - Deliver and quality assure with partners, education and training that is rigorous, highly sought after and future focused.