- Conference
- 2022 Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 9 December 2021
- Decision
- Carried
Conference notes that the NHS employs over 1.3 million staff who are not professionally registered. They are valuable and necessary to the provision of safe patient care.
“Nursing, midwifery and care staff, working as part of wider multidisciplinary teams, play a critical role in securing high quality care and excellent outcomes for patients” (Excerpt from How to ensure the right people, with the right skills, are in the right place at the right time – A guide to nursing, midwifery and care staffing capacity and capability).
Many staff would like to progress but often are denied opportunities to additional training. To provide safe staffing having merely the right number of staff is inadequate.
Conference calls on the Health Service Group Executive to Survey members to:
• Ascertain how many unregistered staff access training over and above the minimum required and what percentage only access the required minimum
• Discover how many feel they could deliver safer, quality care if they had improved access to training
• Establish what percentage of overall training budgets are allocated to non-registered staff
• Campaign for improved access to relevant training over and above the minimum, mandatory training