HEE to take forward work on new nursing role

Health Education England will be conducting the consultation for the new integrated role announced by Health Minister Ben Gummer today.

The new role is expected to work alongside healthcare support workers and fully qualified registered nurses to deliver hands on care, focusing on ensuring patients continue to get the compassionate care they deserve.

The Shape of Caring review recommended developing this role because of an NHS need. Developing this role provides benefits for patients, the NHS and the individual staff who are trained..

Work is already underway, over the past few months HEE has been engaging with key stakeholders and listening to their views on how to best to take this work forward.

Professor Lisa Bayliss-Pratt Director of Nursing & Deputy Director of Education and Quality said:

The development of this new role has the potential to transform the nursing and care workforce, making sure the role has a clear entry and progression point will be crucial in its development. We want to be able to create a career pathway with progression opportunities to enable job satisfaction for those that want to develop themselves in this important profession. Most importantly we want to have a role that gives patients the best possible safe and effective care.

Full details on the consultation and how to get involved will be available in the New Year.