Nursing Associates
(asked on 5th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2017 to Question 115401 on Mental Health Services: Nurses, to which NHS Trusts will the first cohort of nursing associates be assigned, and what specialisms he expects that cohort to undertake.
Nursing associates are an England only role. There are currently 2,000 nursing associates in training within 35 Health Education England Pilots, due to complete and become qualified nursing associates in 2019.
Health Education England (HEE) have published a list of the first and second wave nursing associate test sites on their website found at the following links:
To support national consistency and coherence in the delivery of the education and training model for nursing associates, HEE has developed and published a national curriculum framework in partnership with Skills for Health and Skills for Care. This framework provides details of the breadth of skills and professional competence nursing associates will train to. The Framework can be downloaded from HEE’s website at:
The following tables shows health and care settings for nursing associate placements (this is not an exhaustive list) taken from the Nursing Associate Curriculum Framework.
Health and care settings for placements (not an exhaustive list) in hospital |
- National Health Service and independent sector (adult, children and young people) - Paramedic services - Emergency assessment units (community hospital settings) - Mental health inpatient service - Learning disability inpatient services |
Close to home |
- Hospice (adult and child) - Primary care, general practice and general practice nurses - Respite care with nursing service - Mental health crisis house with nursing services - Mental health community outreach teams - Reablement services (nursing) - School nursing - Substance misuse services - Community learning disability services integrated teams - Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) - Public Health England nursing services |
At home |
- Nursing homes - District and community nursing services - Assisted living for people with learning disabilities - Supported living services - Children’s domiciliary care services - Older person services - Paediatric nursing services - Health visiting services - Community palliative care teams (child and adult) - Charitable end of life services, e.g. Macmillan - Community mental health teams (older people, adult, child) - Perinatal mental health teams - Early intervention for psychosis teams - Offender healthcare units |
Training of the NHS workforce in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales is a matter for each of the governments in the devolved administrations.