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Posted by 1 December 2021
Our duty to patients, taxpayers and our NHS people is to ensure education and training funds are used effectively and distributed fairly in relation to patient need. Across the NHS, this means we must have open and honest conversations, based on evidence about effectiveness, outcomes, and value...
Posted by Dr Navina Evans23 November 2021
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has announced his decision that Health Education England (HEE) will merge with NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE&I) to create a single, better organisation with workforce right at its heart.
HEE has long argued that the NHS needs...
Posted by Dr Navina Evans19 November 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the extent of health inequalities even more starkly and has emphasised the need for us to improve fairness for everyone. This means ensuring we address ongoing health inequalities by investing the money we have in ways that best meet patient needs.
Our duty...
Posted by Sir David Behan11 November 2021
On the 10 November 2021 our chairman Sir David Behan spoke at the Care Talk Live Conference, hosted by Care Talk magazine in association with the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and titled: 'From New Normal to New Future - How has the response to Covid-19 changed social care practice...
Posted by Dr Navina Evans5 November 2021
Earlier this year HEE was commissioned to convene work with leaders, influencers and advocates to co-design and shape a long-term strategic framework for workforce planning by spring 2022.
For the first time ever, this will span health and social care, and will also include regulated...
Posted by Freya Lloyd4 November 2021
COP26 is now taking place now in Glasgow until 12th November 2021, and any decisions made could lead to big changes to our everyday lives.
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Posted by Dr Navina Evans27 October 2021
A pandemic on the scale of COVID-19 was always likely to cause major disruption to health services, and frontline NHS organisations have undoubtedly been tested to their limits. Across all healthcare settings the NHS acted swiftly to bolster its emergency preparedness and resilience, and rose to...
Posted by Dr Navina Evans12 October 2021
I’ve now been HEE’s Chief Executive for a year. The time has flown and so much has happened in this period!
Not only have we achieved on key mandate deliverables - recruiting a record number of GP trainees; helping to deliver a record 32% rise in student nurse applications; adding...
Posted by Professor Dominic Patterson, Primary Care Dean in Yorkshire and the Humber,8 October 2021
In the first HEE blog to mark Black History Month 2021, Primary Care Dean in Yorkshire and the Humber, Professor Dominic Patterson, considers Race Equality in GP training
In September 2021 I was proud to welcome over 350 people from across the UK to HEE’s first conference dedicated to...
Posted by Jacqui Dyer, HEE Mental Health Equalities Advisor8 October 2021
This World Mental Health Day focuses around the theme of Mental Health in an Unequal World.
The diversity of the workforce is critical across all levels and all professions. Currently the configuration of the workforce in mental health is very similar to the configuration of our world, an...