>>Susan Aitkenhead: Hello, my name is Susan Aitkenhead, and I am Director of Nursing – Professional
Development at NHS England. Leading Change, Adding Value is the national framework for
nursing, midwifery and care staff. The framework demonstrates the contribution as professions
that we can make to the Five Year Forward View and other national policy by addressing
unwarranted variation in practice. By doing this, we can demonstrate how we can close
the three gaps in the Five Year Forward View, and demonstrate our outcomes of better outcomes,
better experience and better use of resources. To do this, research is an integral part of
this work, and research runs concurrently throughout the framework. We also have a specific
commitment, commitment number seven, that addresses research and its importance to practice.
We were delighted today to co-facilitate a meeting with HEI colleagues, hosted by Professor
Jane Cummings as Chief Nursing Officer for England and Katerina Kolyva as Executive Director
for the Council of Deans. We have had a very productive morning with HEI colleagues discussing
the visibility of nursing and midwifery care staff research across all the sectors, and
the importance of different roles and various other aspects of this work.
>>Katerina Kolyva: I’m Katerina Kolyva, the Executive Director of the Council of Deans
of Health. >>Patrick Callaghan: I’m Patrick Callaghan,
the Research Executive Lead for the Council of Deans of Health.
Katerina Kolyva: We’re going to talk about the impact and visibility of nursing and midwifery
research in England, and our commitment to increasing visibility. As a Council of Deans
of Health, we are committed to influencing and working in partnership with policymakers
in England to ensure that nursing and midwifery has the right positioning in terms of its
research capacity and capability, and that by doing that, we increase capacity in our
disciplines across the country and across all sorts of specialisms.
>>Patrick Callaghan: One of the many areas of research that the Council of Deans is leading
on, one I would like to particularly drive, is fostering the role of the clinical academic
careers in nursing and midwifery. I see it as a fantastic feature to really transform
the impact of research in those disciplines.
Karen Spilsbury: I’m Karen Spilsbury, a
Professor of Nursing at the University of Leeds. We are committed at Leeds to delivering
research in partnership with policymakers, providers, commissioners and the public to
ensure that nursing research answers questions that matter to the patients that we care for;
whether that be patients in acute care, in the community and also in care homes. So,
we think broadly around health and social care research, and how to really make a difference
and demonstrate the value of nursing. Julie Jomeen:
My name is Julie Jomeen, I’m
Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Midwifery at the University of
Hull. My commitment really in terms of research, and building nursing and midwifery research,
is to continue to try and develop and attract the best research leaders to our institution.
But actually, it’s about the whole clinical career pathway, so it’s about how we embed
research more effectively into our undergraduate curriculum, how we talent-spot from that point
but also across nurses’ and midwives’ career pathways, in order to bring them into
the organisation, to support them in terms of research, development and growth, and grow
those future leaders from inside.
>>Frances Bunn: I think I would also say that
one of the key things is that we think about the Five Year Forward View and the agenda
around integrated care, and the increasing complexity of people’s needs – so a lot
of older people with many comorbidities, etc. – and thinking about research that really
addresses the care needs for those groups.
>>Hilary Garratt: I’m Hilary Garratt, I am
Director of Nursing for NHS England and Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for England. It is natural
to want to find out new things. How do we find out new things? We do that through research.
We find new evidence, or we apply evidence to see how that works in practice.
I think second to that, we also need to have organisations that want not just to find new
things, but to improve on those things. So, how do we do that? That is where unwarranted
variation comes in; so, what is happening in my practice versus what’s happening in
practice in another area. That can be either a ward or a nursing home, or a bigger environment;
a whole geography, for example. Then once we’ve done that, and we’ve improved, the
big question is: okay, how do we maintain what we’ve done? How do we maintain the
gold standards of practice? Again, using research to constantly test that we’re on top of
our game, and constantly improving.
>>Ian Peate: Ian Peate, I am the Professor of
Nursing at Gibraltar School of Health Studies, and I am the Editor in Chief of the British
Journal of Nursing. I’ll be supporting commitment seven of Leading Change, Adding Value in many
ways: through the publication of all of the debates[?] today that we have had in the British
Journal of Nursing; by highlighting and ensuring that what we have in place works and is fit
for practice. I am also very keen to hear from any nurses who have got any case studies
that they want to share with us, and we look forward to publishing them in the British
Journal of Nursing in order to highlight and to stress the importance of this initiative.