Quality Assurance Lay Visitor Workshop Anne Trotter Assistant

Quality Assurance: Lay Visitor Workshop Anne Trotter Assistant Director, Education and Standards 17 December 2018

What does the NMC do?

Our objectives • Better and safer care is at the heart of what we do, supporting nurses, midwives and nursing associates • We help create opportunity and support communities by widening access to the care professions and promoting trust, confidence and professionalism

Our objectives • Working in partnership with higher education institutions, we set the standards and the qualifications students must achieve to step into their first job with the right knowledge and skills to support and look after people, patients, mothers and babies, and the public with kindness, respect and compassion. • This also lays the foundation for revalidation and their future career

The Voice of the public in our work • Established a Public Support Service to ensure the voice of patients, families and the public is included in our decisionmaking • Holding public consultations to gather the views of the public to help shape our work • Focus groups with patient and public groups to share ideas and gather feedback • Updating all our communications with tone of voice guidelines so it’s in plain English and easy to use

The importance of Lay Visitors • In 2013 we improved monitoring visits of approved education institutions (AEIs) by including Lay Visitors • This builds on already extensive requirements for AEIs to involve patients and the public in the design, development delivery and evaluation of training programmes • Including Lay Visitors in our work has improved openness and transparency about this important area of regulation

The importance of Lay Visitors • Our new QA approach includes Lay Visitors in our approvals work for the first time • This means Lay visitors have a vital contribution to make to our new standards and ensuring the public voice at the very start of the student journey • This means we are committed to having the public have a say on how we approve our education programmes

Structure of the new standards

Education and training standards These standards apply to all parts of the register and all routes to registration. They provide the means to assure us that the student can meet the relevant standards of proficiency by undertaking an approved programme

Our new standards for registered nurses

Our new standards for nurse and midwife prescribers RPS: A Competency Framework for All Prescribers (2016)

Regulation of nursing associates: Standards

New QA framework 2018 • Gateway approach to approval • More emphasis on QA of practice learning • Effective practice learning and allocation • Supervision of students and assessment of students and confirmation of progression and proficiency

Our approach to approvals • First wave of approvals will be for: • • Pre-registration nursing programmes, nurse and midwife prescribing programmes and preregistration nursing associate programmes Second wave of approvals will be for: • Pre-registration midwifery programmes and then other post-registration programmes e. g. SCPHN • We will use lay and registrant visitors in our QA approval activities • We’ll ensure that people and students are involved in Gateway 4

Education and practice: a complex space • Significant changes in education and practice • Four country differences • Remembering our role and why we are here • A time of transition for our standards • Challenges • Brexit • Multiple stakeholders and organisations

Example of complex landscape: Apprenticeship stakeholders Approved Education Institutions Department for Health and Social Care Trusts, independent providers and Trailblazer groups

My question to you: What feedback can you provide us with to support our work that will make a difference to the assurance we give to Council?

My second question to you: How should we continue to make sure we hear your voice and what contact should we make with you?

Next steps • Further workshops • Agree ways of communicating Anything else?

Thank you and any questions