Health Education
NHS Education for Scotland / SFC Joint Action Plan
In May 2008 NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and SFC signed a Memorandum of Understanding, with a supporting Joint Action Plan. This set out our commitment to work closely together to support the efficient delivery of healthcare education provision across universities and colleges, support workforce developments in territorial NHS Boards as well as national strategies related to health education within core and existing funding.
This partnership has already delivered much, including support for territorial NHS Boards in the development of healthcare support workers and and the Clinical Skills Network.
As we enter an ever tightening fiscal environment, both organisations have renewed their commitment to the partnership. We intend to focus on ensuring that we support both the health and education sectors dealing with changes to the NHS workforce and projects which will deliver efficiency savings, such as procurement.
Both NES and SFC Boards have signed off the NES SFC joint action plan 2011-2012 [PDF].