South East
About the region
The South East region, stretching in an arc around London, from Thanet in the south east to the New Forest in the south west and to Aylesbury Vale and Milton Keynes in the north west. The South East is home to more than 8 million people comprising 3 million households. The region employs 13% of the total healthcare sector workforce.
Projects
Currently Skills for Health is involved in:
- Developing a Regional Sector Skills Agreement action plan to cover the South East (consultation under way)
- The Regional Health Sector Strategic Alliance, which provides strategic direction for Skills for Health in the South East, manages the Joint Investment Framework and informs the SQS and QCF development
- Developing a Regional Skills Academy for Health.
Competence Portfolio and the Armed Services
Skills for Health in the region have been working with colleagues from South Central Ambulance Trust and the Royal Navy to develop a Competence Portfolio which enables advanced practitioners to record their current practice, and help to enable a flexible approach to integrated clinical skills between the NHS and the Armed Services.
Please click here to download the portfolio.
Sector Skills Agreement
We would like your feedback on the Sector Skills Agreement for the South East. Please click here to find out more.
In 2007 Skills for Health published the Sector Skills Agreement for Health (England). This document was developed following consultation across the health sector taking into account a series of formal research activities which identified a number of UK wide issues that would need to be addressed in the Sector Skills Agreement.
Skills for Health have been engaging with employers and key stakeholders from across the South East of England to develop a Sector Skills Agreement Action Plan for the region.
The document summarises the outcome of this consultation to date, including the key challenges regarding skills development in the health sector, the main issues and proposed actions for resolving these issues.
Key facts
In comparison to the other regions in England, the healthcare sector in South East of England has:
- The highest proportion of employees qualified to S/NVQ level 3 and above (68%)
- The highest number of health sector vacancies
- Approximately 360 independent organisations registered with the Healthcare Commission
- 19% of private hospitals
- Two Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs)
Labour Market Intelligence
To read the full Labour Market Intelligence report on the region
click here.