The South East region encompasses 19 county and unitary authorities and 55 districts, 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.
Skills for Health is actively working with employers and stakeholders to look at better and more productive ways of working as well as to address any skills shortages.
We are currently involved in a number of pilot projects with a variety of organisations looking at a range of solutions across a range of healthcare specialities. Learning from these pilots will be transferable across the NHS.
Currently Skills for Health is involved in:
In comparison to the other regions in England, the healthcare sector in South East of England has:
Tel: 01256 783053
Mob: 07867 537899
chris.wintle@skillsforhealth.org.uk
Background
Born in Aberystwyth
Nurse by Background
Left clinical work to join DH/MA in 2001
Joined Skills for Health in 2005
Interests
Chinese martial arts
Waterpolo
Building & restoring cars
Playing the trumpet & piano
