Healthcare support worker training
Lack of nationwide system and regulatory oversight for training standards of healthcare support workers.
5 items
1 source
3 inquiries
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Healthcare support worker training has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
5 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (5)
R73 — Band 4 associate practitioners
Recommendation: Consideration should be given to enhancing the post of healthcare assistant by creating Band 4 associate practitioners in both hospital and community settings in order to increase the skills of those providing the majority of direct care, and also to …
Response Pending
R71 — Specialist training for healthcare assistants
Recommendation: All healthcare assistants working with people with learning disabilities and autistic people should be provided with training, which should include specialist learning disability training as well as basic positive behaviour support (PBS). They should be required to complete successfully an …
Response Pending
R70 — Mandatory monthly clinical supervision
Recommendation: Clinical supervision (where individuals’ practice with individual patients is discussed) should be mandatory for all ward staff, including healthcare assistants, and should occur monthly. Clinical supervisors should be trained in the conduct of sessions and the outcomes for continuing development …
Response Pending
COVID-M3.6 — Scale Up Hospital Capacity
Recommendation: The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should work with trusts and health boards to ensure that pandemic plans include practical steps to rapidly scale up hospital capacity to treat acutely unwell patients. This should include …
Gov response: No formal response published by this government.
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2 — Review clinical staff competencies
Recommendation: The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust should review the skills, knowledge, competencies and professional duties of care of all obstetric, paediatric, midwifery and neonatal nursing staff, and other staff caring for critically ill patients in anaesthetics and …
Gov response: [A] Recommendations for the Trust Recommendations for the Trust: 1-18 1. The Morecambe Bay Investigation found that there were serious failures in clinical care at University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, causing avoidable harm …
Accepted