Quality

"The quality of education and training experienced by healthcare learners today, will have a direct impact on the quality and safety of patient care now and for many years to come. It is why HEE and our partners are passionate about ensuring the highest quality learning environments across all health and care settings."  

Professor Wendy Reid, Executive Director of Education & Quality and National Medical Director, HEE 

What we do

We work with our regional quality teams to understand the quality of the education and training taking place within healthcare learning environments for all our healthcare learners. We do this by supporting the collection and analysis of robust data and intelligence and responding to quality concerns where they arise, as well as identifying and spreading good practice, so that we drive continuous quality improvement.  At a strategic level, we oversee and promote a consistent approach to quality management across our regions, working collaboratively with our system partners, including health and professional regulators.

Our Strategic Priorities

The Quality Framework underpins our Quality Strategy and provides an overarching set of multi-professional quality standards for the clinical learning environment. It applies to the quality of all healthcare education and training, funded through the NHS Education Contract, across all clinical learning environments within which learners are placed, including an increasing variety of settings in the primary, secondary, community and independent sector. To support our strategic priorities, our Quality Strategy is now more ambitious than ever, concentrating on:

• Promoting and supporting equitable, diverse, and inclusive learning environments
• Providing for learner wellbeing through our quality standards and interventions.
• Setting guidelines for the wellbeing and role of supervisors and other contributors.
• Monitoring and assessing quality and celebrating good practice and innovation.
• Building stronger collaborative alignments with the wider health and care system.
• Driving continuous improvement in the quality of education and training in England.
• Improving patient safety collaboratively

As a learning organisation, we continue to develop and evolve our strategic approach to quality in healthcare education and training to help the NHS to deliver the workforce of the future. The strategic aims set out in this living document drive our approach to continuous improvement in quality. They help to ensure that education environments are inclusive, safe and promote the wellbeing of our learners and those who support and educate them, in turn facilitating high quality training and the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate patient care

Dr Navina Evans. Chief Executive, Health Education England