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Creating a research active workforce: a national perspective
Ged Byrne, Director of Education and Quality, Health Education North West

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Our core purpose
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HEE exists for one purpose only: to deliver a better health and healthcare workforce for England, through the education, training and personal development of every member of staff and recruiting for values.

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Research and Innovation
• Statutory duty to promote research
•We want to be an evidence-informed organisation
•Research & Innovation Strategy
•Clinical Academic Careers Stakeholder Group
oclinical academic training programmes (NIHR)
• Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs)
• Work with HEIs and research organisations is key Innovation is vital to allow health services to meet the challenges of the future

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Policy and legal context
•The Health and Social Care Act 2012
•The Health Education England Directions 2013
•The Mandate from the Government to Health Education England April 2014 to March 2015 We have a duty to promote the values of the NHS Constitution
“HEE’s objective is to develop a more flexible workforce that is able to respond to the changing patterns of service. It will need to develop a workforce that embraces research and innovation to allow it to adapt to the changing demands of public health, healthcare and care services where staff are at the forefront of implementing the Innovation Health and Wealth Strategy” (The Mandate 2014 to 2015)
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In May 2014, HEE invited stakeholders to comment on its draft HEE Research and Innovation Strategy. Over 70 organisations responded & feedback has been incorporated in to the revised Strategy & implementation plan. The final version will be presented to the HEE Board for approval in September.

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Aims
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Research and Innovation Strategy
•to create an education and training system that is evidence based and underpinned by research and innovation; and
•to build the capacity and capability of our current and future workforce to embrace and actively engage with research and innovation.

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Objectives
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Research and Innovation Strategy
Establish a system wide coherence to education and training which will facilitate and sustain the organisational and cultural changes required to embed research and innovation.
Ensure that the evidence on best practice for training in research and innovation informs and influences the delivery of effective education and training within the healthcare system
Develop a multi- professional Clinical Academic Careers Framework for patient benefit.
Establish a HEE Research and Innovation Evidence Hub to ensure investment in future education and training is evidence informed.
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Objective 1
Establish a system wide coherence to education and training which will facilitate and sustain the organisational and cultural changes required to embed research and innovation.
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Objective 1
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HEE Research and Innovation Pathway

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Objective 1
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Flexible Workforce that embraces Research and Innovation

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Objective 2
Ensure that the evidence on best practice for training in research and innovation informs and influences the delivery of effective education and training within the healthcare system
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Objective 2
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Outcome metrics

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Objective 3
Develop a multi-professional Clinical Academic Careers Framework for patient benefit.
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Clinical Academic Careers Stakeholder Group
•Multi-professional group: HEE, CPOs, CoD, DH, NIHR
•Providing oversight and direction in 14/15 for the current CAT Programme
•Discuss links with Integrated Academic Training (IAT)
•Develop and establish a common clinical academic careers framework to encompass the whole healthcare workforce*
•Ensure collaboration with all strategic partners
•Design and launch the new HEE Integrated Clinical Academic Programme (ICAP)
•Contribute to Research and Innovation Strategy * doctors and dentists are separately funded and governed by DH

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Clinical Academic Training Programme - review
•One task for the CACSG was to review the CAT Programme – 4 levels
•A questionnaire was circulated to key stakeholders to establish a baseline position for the CAT Programme, and identify key issues relating to areas of good practice or barriers to access to the various CAT Programme schemes
•The existing scheme was opened up to include pharmacists as a pilot
•A new CAC Framework is being developed that consolidates existing schemes into one programme for all healthcare professionals outside medicine and dentistry – also open to a wider range of professions

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Clinical Academic Careers Framework

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Objective 4
Establish a HEE Research and Innovation Evidence Hub to ensure investment in future education and training is evidence informed.
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