What the NHSU will offer ICT Professionals

1. What the NHSU will offerICT Professionals Dave Miller

2. NHSU - why a university? • Help set highest standards of consistency and quality in education and learning for health and social care • Offer awards to its learners that are of real and recognised value • Offer clear routes of progression to enable all staff to maximise their potential • Build research capability and attract world-class scholars and thinkers • A complementary partner to existing high-quality provision

3. Core purpose To contribute to radical change and improvement in health and social care through the transformation of learning Core principles Access Relevance Choice Support Equity Multi-professional Partnership Quality NHSU - purpose and principles

4. NHSU - structure • Virtual campus • Online learning; guidance on learning opportunities; setting up learning groups • Local Learning Resource Centres • Building partnerships locally; securing delivery of NHSU programmes and services • National Centre for Learning • Developing programmes and services; corporate governance and management; creating the infrastructure • Learning Needs Observatory • Identifying skills needs and ensuring provision of programmes to address needs • Research expertise • Including development of evidence based practice, providing tangible improvements for patients and service users

5. Health Informatics Qualifications Framework HI NOSNHS KSF & AfC UK CHIP Registration MSC or higher in a relevant HI subject Management experience Higher Qualifications & experience Level 3 Professional Awards in IM&T (Health) Job Roles Other professional development e.g. BCS CDF Other relevant degree or NVQ level 4-5 Entry with 1st Degree to Hons and Experience BSc Hons in Health Informatics Level 2 Foundation Degree Unqualified Entry Vocational Pathway Work experience -CPD NVQs 2 - 3 Level 1 Skills Escalator

6. Health Informatics Training Schemes Framework HI NOSNHS KSF & AfC UK CHIP Registration Management experience Higher Qualifications & experience Level 3 Graduate recruitment leadership scheme Job Roles Entry with 1st Degree to Hons and Experience Level 2 Entry Level PDP Core and senior practitioner training scheme Unqualified Entry Vocational Pathway Work experience -CPD Level 1 Skills Escalator ‘Making Information Count’ - section 4.2 Developing the Health Informatics Workforce

7. Ongoing research and evaluation • Recognition and QA of HE / FEIs • Review of standards • National Occupational Standards • Development of agreed qualifications framework for HI specialists • Link to CPD, formal HE / FE academic courses, short courses, NVQs • Prepare a case for NHS HI leadership, apprenticeship and graduate schemes

8. Faculty of Health Informatics “By April 2005 we will have established a recognised centre of excellence in association with NHSU to support informatics in health and social care.”

9. The Faculty will improve the working practice of individuals … • By undertaking and publishing research • By providing learning services and products • Through access to information and knowledge

10. Ongoing development of the Faculty will be organic, driven by demand.Work will be themed to meet the current strategic needs of the Service.

11. Members of the Faculty will draw on the learning and research opportunities of the Faculty and in return provide others with the benefits of their skills and knowledge in a collegiate atmosphere. Members will be leaders in health informatics through teaching, learning, research, standards, quality and publications.

12. What the NHSU will offerICT Professionals dave.miller@nhsia.nhs.uk