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£1 million healthcare training scheme
03/03/2003
A £1 million training partnership scheme
involving nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
was launched today.
The Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions
Research Training Scheme will address the contribution
nurses, midwives and health professionals can make to
health care research and help to develop the number of
people within the professions who have the knowledge and
experience to undertake rigorous research.
The funding follows on from the recommendations in
Choices and Challenges; Strategy for Nursing and
Midwifery Research and Development and Building on Success:
Future Directions for the Allied Health Professions in
Scotland which highlighted the need to develop the
research capacity.
The partnership is between the Executive, NHS Education
Scotland (NES) and the PPP Foundation, an independent
healthcare charity.
The funding package comprises £300,000 from the
Executive Health Department; £400,000 from NHS Education
Scotland, and £300,000 from the PPP Foundation.
At the launch, Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm will
say:
"At the heart of the White Paper Partnership for Care is
a culture of care that is developed and fostered by a new
partnership between patients, staff and the government. We
want a service which responds to patients and which
responds to the interests of local communities.
"These professions continue to be relatively new players
in the research and development field and the partnership
announced today presents opportunities for nurses, midwives
and allied health professions to improve the quality of
care for service users and the public in Scotland.
"Moreover, research undertaken by health professionals
can assist in developing services from the patients' point
of view. One of the key ways to improve health is to use
good evidence of what works for patients and services.
"A patient-focused and public-involving health service
must drive the planning, delivery, monitoring and
development of services in NHSScotland and I know this is a
shared principle of nurses, midwives and allied health
professions."
The Minister will launch the partnership at the Khush
Dil 'Happy Heart' Project in Edinburgh, where an action
research project, funded by the British Heart Foundation,
is being undertaken to evaluate the service offered to
address coronary heart disease and diabetes in the South
Asian population.
In advance of the visit he said:
"The Khush Dil Project is an excellent example of how a
multidisciplinary team has engaged with service users and
members of this community as key participants of the
research process. It is an example of the innovative and
forward thinking approach which can be taken, approaches
which Partnership for Care seeks to encourage."
The scheme will support the partnership of two or more
higher education institutions in Scotland to collaborate
over three to five years to offer research training to
nurses, midwives and AHPs undertaking pre-doctoral and
post-doctoral studies.
Originally, the title of charity PPP was an acronym for
private, patient, plan and it distributes grants to
healthcare-related programmes and initiatives.
The Khush Dil 'Happy Heart' Project was launched in May
2002. Funded by the British Heart Foundation, the project
works to address coronary heart disease and diabetes in the
South Asian population in North East Edinburgh with an
emphasis on primary prevention. Nurse-led clinics,
screening and a lifestyle changing programme have all been
developed as part of the project. The project won the 2002
Award of Excellence in Coronary Heart Disease and Diabetes
sponsored by Merck, Sharp and Dohme and Primary Care
Partnerships.