Katie McGhee England Representative UEA, Norwich England Update June 2017 Katie McGhee England Representative UEA, Norwich

Bsc Nursing Applications Wonkhe Bsc Nursing Applications Children’s Nursing The Funding Clinic Sustainability and Transformation Plans

Wonkhe To improve policy making in higher education and provide a platform for new or previously unheard voices in the sector Who are Higher Education Wonks? work in and around universities interested in higher education policy, people and politics Fleur Nielsen Head of Policy at Council of Deans of Health (CoDoH) http://wonkhe.com/blogs/comment-no-panic-fall-nursing-applications/

BSc Nursing Applications UCAS Nursing Applications for England 2017 23% decline (UCAS, 24.3.17) Understanding the dip Expected first year of funding reforms Reduced EU applicants and negative NHS press coverage Reduced applicants from older age-groups Most university health faculties expected this. Reduced EU applications and Negative press are not necessarily related to funding reforms Half of the fall in nursing applicants mirrors the wider issue of a fall in older age-group applications to non nursing courses

Children’s Nursing Applications No national statistic currently Vulnerability Oversubscribed courses with high quality applications Risk to other fields of nursing from mature applicants reduction Work to do DoH to promote healthcare careers and publicise graduate employability Programme sustainability vs expansion -10,000 more places by 2020 Reliant on work-based learning – who will fund and organise in 2018? East of England Reduction University of East Anglia (30) 10% University of Hertfordshire (40) 22% University of Bedfordshire (35) 23%

The Funding Clinic https://thefundingclinic.org.uk/ Funding information for studying nursing, midwifery or the allied health professions in England (CoDoH 2017)

Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) www. kingsfund. org Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) www.kingsfund.org.uk/topics/integrated-care/sustainability-transformation-plans-explained STPs Five year NHS spending plans 44 geographical footprints Collaboration between organisations Headlines for Improvement NHS spending and integration with social care and local authority services 1. Quality and developing new models of care 2. Health and wellbeing 3. Efficiency of services Key priorities for local areas. Leaders are from CCGs and NHS/Foundation Trusts and some local government. Average populations of 1.2 million people STPs from October 2016 are publicly available.

Strategic Group Planning a Workforce UEA – Norfolk and Waveney Placements – Suffolk and Essex Strategic Group Planning a Workforce