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Practice learning is key to our future
Abstract
In my role at the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) I have frequently shared with colleagues my view that there is an opportunity for improved senior leadership of practice learning for student nurses in partnership with NMC-approved education institutions by nurse leaders across health and social care providers. One of the key goals in NHS England's (2023)Long Term Workforce Plan is to increase the number of nursing students, but this goes against a backdrop of a 7% drop in applications to nursing programmes for 2023/24 reported by UCAS (Council of Deans of Health, 2024a). There is some targeted work to do.
An open letter jointly signed by key education leaders before the election called for the next prime minister to support a whole-government approach to improving the domestic pipeline of nurses by taking responsibility for closer collaboration between universities and healthcare providers to increase student uptake (Council of Deans of Health et al, 2024b).
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