Foreword By Kimberley Salmon Jamieson, Chief Nurse, Deputy Chief Executive, Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The importance of strengthening and developing clinical placement capacity is a strategic focus for Wirral and Cheshire NHS organisations and has been identified as a priority area by the Cheshire & Merseyside Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Programme.
In May 2020, NHS England announced a support package for universities and pre registration healthcare students to ensure that barriers were not put in the way of increasing the future domestic supply of Nursing,Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals. The statement included the approval of 5000 additional training places allocated to Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional courses.
The announcement was made across a backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic which resulted in significant changes to the delivery of healthcare provision and impacted on established healthcare placement capacity. In September 2020, we were delighted that a Wirral and Cheshire consortium bid to Health Education England, supported by NHS Improvement England was successful, and clinical placement expansion funding was awarded. The funding has supported members of the consortium to develop new initiatives to deliver sustainable growth in placement capacity and the NHS workforce, in line with the priorities of the long-term plan. I am pleased to confirm our ambition to
provide an additional 187 first year Nursing and Midwifery students withplacement opportunities in our partnership organisations was exceeded. I am delighted to present the associated case studies and a huge well done to all the teams involved.
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