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This week’s Featured Apprentice on HASO is Beckie Twinney, a Level 5 Nursing Associate apprentice working at Bath Royal United Hospital on…

As part of the Assistant Practitioner standard consultation survey, some specific questions about the inclusion of mandatory qualifications were asked. The results of the survey…

Further to the announcement of the 6 fully integrated EPAs published, the funding bands were reviewed and, as a result,…

Further to the announcement in October that IFATE is simplifying how end-point assessment (EPA) is carried out for regulated occupations, a range of EPA…

Last week was National Apprenticeship Week, and to celebrate it we published case studies and resources on our HASO Twitter account. The case studies featured…

This week we are introducing to you Holly Leech a Nursing Associate Apprentice at Harefield Hospital part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS…

The following apprenticeship standards have new End Point Assessment Organisations registered to offer end point assessment: (more…)

This week we are introducing to you Annamaria Horvath a Trainee Nursing Associate at St Georges Hospital who has completed the Care Certificate and…

Angelo Varetto – Head of NOS, Qualifications and Apprenticeships from Skills for Health had a chat with Lindy Lloyd, an Apprenticeship Policy and Compliance Manager from the Open University…

Health Education England (HEE) have announced a funding package to support the growth of Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeships (RNDA) in the NHS. The funding offer – summary A ‘Training Grant’ of…

Health Education England, and Salisbury NHSFT have launched the new National Framework for Nursing Associate, Nursing, and Midwifery apprenticeship provision. This is aimed at supporting…

Featured in today’s Meet the Apprentice series is Faye Bravant, a Nursing Associate apprentice at St Peter & St James Hospice.

Featured in today’s Meet the Apprentice series is Kerry Good, a Nursing Associate apprentice at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The HEE Talent for Care Team are delighted to announce the launch of the expansion of the Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship (RNDA) implementation in support of the 50k Registered…

Featured in today’s Meet the Apprentice series is Donna Carradus, a nursing associate apprentice at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.

The Education and Skills Funding Agency have published a guidance document with additional information to the health sector around the clinical placement activity…

Featured in today’s Meet the Apprentice series is Anum Nawaz, a nursing associate apprentice at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.

The EPA flexibilities announced by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education on 9th April has allowed 82 Nursing Associate apprentices to complete their…

Featured in today’s Meet the Apprentice series is Danniel Horrocks, a nursing associate apprentice at Manchester University NHS Foundation Hospital.

From 9th April The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) has been supporting new flexibilities for Registered Nurse (RN) Degree Apprentices and Nursing Associate (NA) Apprentices that were…

This week we’ve updated/published the following: Covid-19 FAQs UPDATED – new FAQs added under Registered Nurse and Nursing Associate Apprentices…

This week we’ve updated/published the following: Covid-19 FAQs UPDATED Registered Nurse and Nursing Associate Apprentices EPA Flexibilities FAQs NEW

The following apprenticeship standards have new End Point Assessment Organisations registered to offer end point assessment: Level 2 Adult Care Worker

Meet Mushtag Kahin, a Trainee Nursing Associate at South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. The Trust has…

The flexibility for the Nursing Associate/Registered Nurse apprentice EPA was agreed, this applies to apprentices who are on registered apprenticeship programmes (paid by levy) who have…

Featured in today’s Meet the Apprentice series is Claire Riley, a Nursing Associate apprentice at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust.

Care UK is proud to be able to offer their nursing staff, working within prisons, the opportunity to progress to the next step in their careers…

A revised Nursing Associate End Point Assessment has been published today which lifts the restriction on the End Point Assessment Organisation being an…

The following apprenticeship standards have been updated: Level 2: Adult Care Worker – minor amendment to standard Level 3:

(L-R) Lucy Hunte – National Programme Manager – Apprenticeships HEE, Melanie Woodman – Lifetime Health Apprentice of the Year,…

It has been another busy year for us at Skills for Health. Following the successful development of 11 apprenticeship standards in 2018, the pace…

Returning for the fourth year, the Our Health Heroes Awards took place on Wednesday 20th November at the Science Museum in London to celebrate and recognise the hard work of…

To bring the Nursing Associate apprenticeship standard in line with all the NMC regulated occupation apprenticeship standards, the reference to a % Off The…

We have received a number of enquiries regarding which End Point Assessment Plan would apply to various cohorts of apprentices. Registered Nurse (NMC 2010) ST0293: There is…

Several updates on HASO recently: Standards added to HASO Marketing Assistant Level 3 Standards recently Approved for Delivery Associate Continuing…

This month we are introducing the Chair of the Nursing Associate Trailblazer group – Sue Crew. We asked her what it was like to lead…

The Nursing Associate (2018) and the Registered Nurse (2018) assessment plans have been updated to stipulate that the EPAO must be approved…

New guidance for how employees taking part in trainee nursing associate programmes and other courses which fall under the widening access training scheme (WATS)…

Following the introduction of the Nursing Associate role, Health Education England have created a toolkit for employers providing access to a variety of tools for assessment…

Peggy Murrell Peggy Murrell is a trainee nurse associate and is currently undergoing a 2-year foundation degree at Brighton University. Below is…