Appendix I: Associated intiatives
The following associated initiatives are being progressed by the Directorate of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions of the Scottish Executive Health Department.
- Facing the Future, an initiative with a number of work streams that focuses on maximising recruitment and retention.
- The Nursing Workload and Workforce Planning Project, developing systematic planning tools with a specific sub-group developing those across the spectrum of mental health services.
- A Framework for Developing New Nursing Roles was launched in July 2005 to provide guidance on developing new and extended nursing roles.
- Caring for Scotland is the strategy for nursing and midwifery in Scotland. It is currently being reviewed in the context of Delivering for Health. Many of the recommendations made in the original report are still relevant to developing the infrastructure to support culture, capability and capacity in the mental health nursing workforce.
- Choices and Challenges outlined a strategy for research and development in nursing and midwifery for Scotland which resulted in a range of concurrent activities, including initiatives on providing pre-and post-doctoral training opportunities for staff and other activities to enhance the capability of novice researchers. In 2004, the Scottish Executive Health Department supported the development of three regional consortia with the specific purpose of increasing capacity and capability of nurses, midwives and allied health professionals in research.
- The Scottish Executive Health Department commissioned NHS Education for Scotland to develop two education and development programmes: the Flying Start Programme is focused on the support and developmental needs of newly qualified staff during the first year after their initial registration; and a Nurse Consultant Development Programme has been designed to develop practitioners towards consultant-level practice to enable succession planning into these posts.
- The Occupational, Professional and Regulatory Standards Work Stream is being lead by the CNO in Scotland. It will result in a framework for occupational and professional standards for NHS Scotland, including a framework for regulatory processes and work on the regulatory requirements for health care support workers.
- A CNOReview of the Role of Nursing in the Community will report in 2006, and a review of the role of the senior charge nurse will commence in 2006.
On a UK-wide basis, work is progressing on:
- Modernising Nursing/Clinical Careers and Careers Frameworks
- the development of academic/clinical career pathways.