Case studies

New case studies

• New role cuts length of stay by 60% at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
  How new competence based Allied Health Professional Advanced Practitioner role doubled patient discharge rates and reduced onward referrals.
• New role improves patient care at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
  How Advanced Nurse Practitioner role enabled more flexible ways of delivering services improved patient outcomes and helped nurses to progress along the career framework.
• Achieving 90% employment for students at NHS Tayside
  Meeting the flexible workforce challenge using a competence based approach to develop support staff and open up career pathways across health and social care.
• Flexible training for support staff improves service quality
  Career Framework helps NHS Lothian develop Healthcare Support Worker role in mental health and learning disability services
• New role has ‘phenomenal’ effect on Emergency Departments
  How a new role is easing emergency access to hospitals, improving patients’ experience and saving money
• Recruitment toolkit delivers ‘very significant’ savings for Cwm Taf Local Health Board
  How Skills for Health’s Sector Employability Toolkit dramatically improved recruitment to hard-to-fill posts while reducing turnover and sickness rates.
• Dramatically cutting waiting times and improving productivity
  How transferable roles are transforming services in NHS Dudley
• Cutting length of stay at Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
  How using competences to develop new roles delivered a more productive workforce.
• How Foundation Trust drove up recruitment and reduced turnover in hard to fill posts
  Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust applies employability approach to open up a new workforce pool.
• Competence based coaching develops effective front line managers
  How Whittington Hospital NHS Trust and Skills for Health pioneered competence based leadership programme for front line managers.
• Equipping staff with the business skills to lead innovative healthcare services
  Skills for Health helps Therapyworks pioneer new franchise model for physiotherapy practice in independent healthcare
• Competence based training boosts competence and confidence in clinical practice
  NHS Nottingham City and University of Nottingham use competences to support staff development for End of Life Care.
• Nuffield Health uses Skills for Health competences to eliminate one area’s clinical incidents
  How supporting staff with competence based training helped build excellent safety record while freeing up clinical staff time.
• Creating safe, efficient and effective new services for remote and rural populations in Scotland
  How Scotland’s Remote and Rural Healthcare Educational Alliance used a competence based approach to create a new flexible role
• New Roles and Progression Pathways Report
  This case study was commissioned to test the usefulness of ‘Growing Your Own: a Practical Guide to Growing Your Own Professionals for the New NHS’ against the realities of front line delivery of an NHS Trust - Newham University Hospital Trust (NUHT)

Current case studies

• Meeting 18 week wait through workforce development
  Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust uses Skills for Health competences
• Improving service delivery in Breast Screening
  Warwickshire, Solihull & Coventry – developing new Practitioner roles
• Improving service delivery in school health services
  When South Birmingham Primary Care Trust was invited to become part of a School Health Demonstrator project, managers recognised an opportunity to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of a new role in school nursing
• A competence based approach to service and team redesign
  NHS Forth Valley creates evidence-based new roles for older people’s care
• LLN training overcomes the language barrier
  Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Foundation Trust pioneers English for Speakers of Other Languages training
• New Roles support elderly patient services
  Whittington Hospital Trust uses Skills for Health competences for Therapy Assistant roles
• Creating career progression opportunities for healthcare staff  
  Northwest London Trust uses Skills for Health competences for Associate Practitioner role
• Creating accessible training in Psychological Therapies  
• Improving professional development in health  
  BUPA implements Skills for Health competences
• Now is the time to invest in skills - the Blackpool way  
• Independent care home staff to provide new levels of personalised care  
• Creating new roles to support Hospitals at Night  
• Improving management of long term conditions  
• Improving education, training and service re-design in healthcare services
  Clinovia implements Skills for Health competences
• New obstetric theatre maternity support workers  
• Emergency care reform in Northern Ireland
• Angina patient pathway
  Berkshire CHD Collaborative
• Angiograph practitioner role profiling, job specification and training plan  
  Hull and East Yorkshire Hospital NHS Trust
• Reducing complications in people with diabetes  
• Using competences to improve Coronary Heart Disease services  
• Linking LLN training to disability priorities and KSF
• A whole organisation approach to Skills for Life
• Unlocking staff potential at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
  A Learning Advisor model approach to Skills for Life
• Apprenticeships - a vital tool for workforce development
• User empowerment  
  Castle Hill Cardiac Support Team
• Cardiac Nurse Practitioner role profiles and development plans
  Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford
• ACS competence-based training programme
  Critical Care Institute, Greater Manchester SHA
• Using competences to improve Coronary Heart Disease services
  Wrexham Maelor Hospital – developing the role of the Acute Coronary Syndrome Nurse
• Cath lab worker role profile and training programme
  Lancashire and South Cumbria Cardiac Network
• Cardiology department job descriptions and training plans
  Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital, Slough
• Awareness of Literacy, Language and Numeracy supports Lincolnshire health employees  
• Contextualised Literacy, Language and Numeracy Awareness brings success  
• Northwest London NHS Hospital Trust  
  Improves patient care and reduces nursing burden through the introduction of a new Associate Practitioner role
• Learning for all Union Learning Representatives