Posted by Patrick Mitchell, Regional Director - South, Health Education England23 January 2019
One of the quirks of life, particularly in the NHS, is that there is a sense in which we have two New Years per year, the one in January and then another one in April. We have been doing it this way for centuries, so it must work.
According to the news earlier this month, the NHS is...
Posted by Patrick Mitchell, Regional Director - South, Health Education England6 November 2018
Patrick Mitchell, Health Education England’s (HEE) Regional Director for the south, argues strongly that partnerships still have the power to transform future health & care services.
Breaking Barriers
In this fast moving and ever-changing world, the one thing that everyone can...
Posted by Beverley Harden, AHP Lead, Health Education England15 October 2018
I have had the enormous privilege over my career to shortlist thousands of incredible people across the professions for a variety of roles.
As part of celebrating AHPs on #AHPsDay today (15 October) I would like to draw our combined attention to the breadth of transferable skills AHPs...
Posted by Professor Lisa Bayliss-Pratt, Chief Nurse, Health Education England and Interim Regional Director for Health Education England London and South East10 October 2018
Someone with a severe mental illness can expect to live up to 20 years less than the national average. It is shocking and unacceptable that there is such a gap between life expectancies in our communities.
Posted by Professor Wendy Reid, Executive Director of Education and Quality and National Medical Director13 September 2018
To mark World Sepsis Day, Professor Wendy Reid, Executive Director of Education and Quality and National Medical Director, reflects on our work to raise awareness of the condition among healthcare staff…
"Sepsis is a common condition triggered by an infection which causes the body’s...
Posted by Rob Smith - Director of Workforce Planning and Intelligence4 September 2018
"At Health Education England, we are responsible for overseeing the training and education of doctors and other healthcare professions in England. Our Trainee Information System programme, also known as TIS, is our new, web-based system that allows us to collect and track data as doctors,...
Posted by Phil Hough and Simon Hough3 September 2018
Peer support is one of the new roles featured in the HEE Star, a tool developed by HEE to support workforce transformation across the NHS. Peer support workers are individuals with priorpersonal experience of health and care services, equipping them with the knowledge and insights often helpful...
Posted by Patrick Mitchell, Regional Director - South, Health Education England13 August 2018
Following the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service last month, Patrick Mitchell, Health Education England’s (HEE) Regional Director for the south, looks to its future with the emergence of new healthcare sector careers and an NHS that is changing with the times.
There are...
Posted by Mrs Scarlett McNally9 August 2018
During our work to enhance the lives of doctors in postgraduate training, we heard that many in the profession were unhappy with the term ‘junior doctors’ - and even with “trainees” or “doctors in training”.
There is concern that current terminology does not reflect the skills and...
Posted by Professor Wendy Reid, Director of Education and Quality, Medical Director30 May 2018
I am delighted to launch our latest update report on the progress of our work to enhance the lives of doctors in training. It has been a little while since I last blogged about our work, and the report reflects how busy our team, and our partners, have been.
Our last report marked the...