The multi professional quality assurance toolkit supports new learning environments to host learners, as well as providing a quality assurance monitoring process of the learning environment of existing practice areas. The toolkit has three key parts. Firstly, the approval tool will assure the learning environment meets required standards and secondly the ongoing monitoring tool. The third section relates to an escalation and triangulation guidance when there is a concern to the clinical learning environment.
The quality assurance toolkit will be used in the following circumstances:
- To support a new clinical learning environment
- To support the expansion of learners with a different regulatory body i.e. the placement has been approved for HCPC learners however it wishes to expand the opportunity to NMC learners.
- To manage quality concerns of the learning environment
- To provide a process of ongoing quality monitoring of an existing placement provider
Process guide
Please refer to the process guide to help support the use of the toolkit.
Supporting material
FAQs April 2024 – these FAQs have been designed to clarify when to use the toolkit, which type of learner groups and how to implement the process.
Quality framework support material
Tool templates
Practice learning approval tool
Escalation and triangulation guidance of education quality concerns
Learning Environments in Primary Care
Across the southeast, there exists a method of assuring the clinical environment for multiple learners in primary care, across a primary care network (PCN) or other ‘at scale’ learning environment (e.g., a GP Federation). The PCN level assurance is used in Kent, Surrey & Sussex (KSS), Hampshire & the Isle of Wight (HIOW), and Thames Valley (TV). Where PCN level assurance is in place, there is no need use the practice assurance toolkit.
For placing in Primary Care providers in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, please contact england.ksspc.educationquality@nhs.net for access to the approved learning environment database.
For placing in Primary Care providers in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and West Berkshire (BOB) or Hampshire & Isle of Wight, please contact england.primarycareschooltvw.se@nhs.net.
Placement evaluation survey
To use the the placement evaluation survey form, click on the link below and follow the instructions.
Instructions on how to use the placement evaluation survey
Contact us
For queries, or more information, please email the Quality team via england.quality.wx@nhs.net