As the delivery of healthcare and professional training become
increasingly delegated, the need for robust and impartial
regulation and inspection becomes more important.
Our close links with sister company,
Cambridge
Education
› , means that we can apply their established
systems and processes developed as one of the five providers of
Ofsted school inspections to the healthcare sector.
By adopting this approach, we have been appointed by the
Nursing &
Midwifery Council› (NMC) to deliver a new Quality Assurance (QA)
framework in England. The new Framework has been developed with a
range of stakeholders to provide a risk-based approach to
monitoring the standards of delivery of NMC approved
programmes.
The level of monitoring activity will be targeted and proportionate
to levels of risk. This could mean a reduced level of involvement
with programme providers that are exceeding the standards required
by the NMC. From January 2007, HLSP will establish baseline
information building on the NMC’s experience to date to inform the
development of risk analysis for the NMC.
