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Funding boost for NHS online training in Wales
Welsh Health Secretary Vaughan Gething has announced an extra £10 million funding boost for online training to mark the official launch of Health Education Improvement Wales (HEIW).
HEIW, bringing together the Wales Deanery, the Wales Centre for Pharmacy Professional Education and NHS Wales’ Workforce, Education and Development Services, will provide a single approach to commissioning, planning and developing the education and training of the NHS workforce in Wales.
With £10 million invested in the NHS Wales e-library over three years, HEIW will provide continual learning opportunities, which will be critical to responding to technological advances in the health sector.
Gething said: “We’ve set out our long-term plan to transform the health service, bringing services closer to home and moving from a reliance on hospitals. Having a strong and sustainable workforce is vital to driving this transformation, and is one of the key reasons we are launching HEIW. HEIW will help nurture and grow the people and organisations that will deliver the next stage of development of our NHS and in turn will deliver better services for the people of Wales.”
Chris Jones, the chair of HEIW, said: “Supporting NHS Wales, and working closely with Social Care Wales, HEIW will bring a focus and energy to developing the health care workforce of the future. It gives us an exciting opportunity to build our reputation in Wales for healthcare education, training, recruitment and retention. As the 11th health body, we look forward to working with our NHS partners, the wider health organisations, and our education partners to improve care through service transformation; building a well trained workforce enabled to adapt to emerging technologies and excellence in care.”
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