Enabling Effective Learning Environments |

Greater Manchester Health and Care Learning Environment Strategy

Enabling Effective Learning Environments to steer the future of practice education and practice learning.

The Greater Manchester Enabling Effective Learning Environments project is a collaborative project funded by Health Education England.

We are exploring ways to improve practice education and learning in health and care across Greater Manchester.

We want to enhance the quality of the many learning environments in which current and future allied health professionals, midwives and nurses undertake practice education and learning.

The strategy will:

provide direction and aspiration to enable innovation and drive change;
embrace developments in health and care delivery across all sectors;
ensure effective development of our future health and care workforce.

More information can be found in our reports, or you can scroll down this page for the key points.

Executive summary

Full strategy

Key points

Our project enables system-wide collaboration to develop practice education for the current and future health and care workforce in Greater Manchester.

The strategy engages everyone who is involved with and contributes to the practice education of nurses, midwives and allied health professionals across all health and care settings, including learners themselves.

We believe that an effective learning environment should comprise the following:

a supportive learning culture;
enough supply of quality assured learning opportunities;
a well-led and supported practice learning support infrastructure;
trained and committed educators/supervisors;
suitable learning facilities and resources;
organisational commitment to quality;
effective planning, collaboration and innovation between placement and education providers to ensure efficient use of the available clinical placement capacity.

The three pillars of our strategy underpin how we enable effective learning environments and provide structure to the identified themes and subsequent actions for this.

Get Prepared

Improving the impact of investment to enhance and facilitate learning environments and capacity
Partnership and process in the identification and development of new learning environments
Preparing and empowering learners to embrace practice learning opportunities
Welcoming learners to care provider organisations and learning environments
Valuing learners – they are the future of our health and care workforce for Greater Manchester

Embrace the Experience

Promoting the value of the role of the educator in practice
Developing university-based roles to support and facilitate practice education within learning environments
Ensuring the quality of practice education within learning environments for all learners

Model the Future

Driving innovation in models to support practice education across Greater Manchester
Widening access to learning environment opportunities in social care by identifying and overcoming barriers
Widening access to learning environment opportunities in primary care by identifying and overcoming barriers
Maximising the opportunities offered by simulation and virtual learning
Meeting the challenge of learning environment capacity head on
Addressing the challenges of Private and Independent Voluntary Organisation learning environments – development, sustainability and support to ensure learning environments and capacity