Priority 5: Supporting improvement through defined standards and principles

Common principles will be developed which illustrate ‘what good looks like’ and define what both education providers and learners need from educators.

Whilst professional regulators often outline profession-specific standards for education and training, in this context common, consistent principles and approaches to applying evidence will be developed and be applicable across all professions, regardless of regulation status, and should reduce duplication wherever possible.

It is noted that HEE’s Quality Framework contains eight specific standards on provider organisations’ educational governance and commitment to quality, plus seven standards around how providers are expected to develop and support educators. HEE’s Centre for Advancing Practice publication on Workforce Supervision for Advanced Clinical Practice sets out seven fundamental considerations which underpin supervision in advanced clinical practice, which is an example of fundamentals working across professions and practice settings.

These will be a strong guide to set starting points for agreed common principles to support improvement and development.