Workforce and Education Directorate

Modernising Scientific Careers

Workforce Implementation Group

LIFE SCIENCES

4th February 2011

Blenheim House, Leeds 10-12 am

Brief Notes and Actions

Organisation / Representative / In Attendance / Notes
Airedale NHS FT
Barnsley Hospitals NHS FT / x
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT / David Robertshaw / x
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS FT / Sharon Appleby / ü
Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS FT / Jean Wardell / ü
Harrogate and District NHS FT / Lesley Bridson / x
HEI’s
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust / Ian Hanning / ü
Leeds Metropolitan University / Helen Picton / ü / Clinical Embryologist
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust / Mike Bosomworth / ü / Chair
Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust / Emma Godfrey / ü
North Lincolnshire & Goole Hospitals NHS FT / Richard Cartwright / ü
Rotherham NHS FT / Chris Hughes / x / Apologies Received
Scarborough & North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust / x
Sheffield Children’s NHS FT / x / Apologies Received
Sheffield Hallam University / S M Laird / x / Apologies
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS FT / Steve Davies / ü
University of Bradford / Gillian Jaggar
Christine Beedham / ü
ü
University of Hull / Anne-Marie Seymour / ü
Y & H SHA / Neil Porter / ü
York Teaching Hospitals NHS FT / Joanna Andrew / ü
Item / Discussion points/notes / Action / By/Date
1 / Introductions / MB/NP introduced new members to the group from Bradford University (Christine Beedham) Helen Picton (Leeds University) Sharon Appleby (Calderdale & Huddersfield and Emma Godfrey (Mid Yorks
2 / Notes from December 14th & matters arising / We are still awaiting confirmation of nominations for Barnsley (Steve Hall), Scarborough and Airedale.
Return of the proformas for progress on implementation were to be collected a.s.a.p. AS’s summary of purpose of this document had been circulated.
All documents had been sent out to the groups with previous notes.
3 / Trust Audit of Progress
CPD Funding for / Only two returns were received by end of the meeting. Progress was slow or embryonic.
NP had prepared this spreadsheet to get a bottom up understanding of how much funds HCS got through SHA CPD funding stream. It had been circulated to Physiological & Med Physics groups but not Life Sciences. Given the difficulties of funding of CPD this was an important baseline indicator / All to return proformas by April 8th
All to return by April 8th
4 / SHA Assurance Tool / As an illustration of the amount of information the SHA was require to provide compared to other implementation groups simple proforma. The SHA has this peer reviewed by the NE SHA and must complete bi-monthly / For information enclose with notes
5 / NHS Employers Communication / Correspondence received from and responded to was shared. NHS Employers understood the difficulties of getting Trust HR departments engaged in MSC.
NP had invited representatives from NHS Employers to attend future oversight meetings with the Chairs of the Implementation Group / NP to confirm invites to J Wanje /R Warden
6 / HEI Status in Yorkshire & Humber Nationally / The position in Yorkshire & Humber for PTP in 2011 was fairly clear but STP provision was still uncertain whilst curricula were awaited and the tender process firmed up. At this point we know that Hallam do not wish to provide PTP at all. Bradford will run Life Science & Genetics PTP in 2011. Hull are awaiting outcome of STP provision but are talking with Bradford. / Circulate HEI status / With notes
7 / Recruitment Process / Recruitment guidance had been issued with a deadline for uploading adverts to NHS Jobs of February 21st. / STP requesters to ensure VCP have passed posts and adverts are nearly in the correct format and correct title of Heath Care Scientist Trainee / By February 21st
8 / Curriculum Update / The STP curricula were released on 20th January 2011 and are available on:
http://www.networks.nhs.uk/nhs-networks/msc/network-curricula
They are still subject to further modification by Professional bodies and writing team but are sufficiently robust for the HEI’s to judge content for STP provision / Circulate link / With notes
9 / Training Capacity Train the Trainers / This is a piece of work that all need to address. We have the information from the predicted needs template but organisations need to scope how they can use existing resources to cover this area / All to commence looking at this and how it may be delivered
10 / Level 1-4 Update / Apprenticeships and QCFs may be a route to gaining entry to a Foundation degree course. QCF diploma is equivalent to a pass at BTec. EdeXel NVQs gone but LATA NVQs still available.
11 / Important Dates / March 21st and 22nd would be the CSO Event. The first day would concentrate on White Paper relevance to HCS and would include Andrew Lansley and David Nicholson. Public Health would also be stressed. Day 2 would include more operational content and Presentations form Early Adopter sites. Leadership would be a common theme.
May 9th The Regional HCS Event. This would be arranged by PCC as per the MSC Regional meeting last July. The morning would focus on the White Paper, Liberating the NHS and its relevance to HCS. The afternoon will be a reflection of our own regional priorities and NP hopes to showcase good practice examples from each of the Science divisions. An outline programme will be discussed with the Implementation Group chairs. / Limited number of places for CSO event. The group as leaders should apply a.s.a.p.
Further details at next meeting April 1st
12 / QIPP across HCS Divisions / The Early Adopter sites had done some work aligning QIPP to MSC. This was now in the form of a matrix. / Members to submit any QIPP suggestions. Circulate QIPP notes with Matrix
13 / Early Adopter sites update / The project update reports from Sheffield and Leeds were to be made available.
14 / AOB and Next Meeting Date / Friday April 1st 10:00 am
Blenheim House
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