Multi Professional Quality Assurance of the Practice Learning Environment

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.

Short exemplar

Long exemplar

Quality framework support material

Tool templates

Practice learning approval tool

Ongoing monitoring tool

Action plan tool

Escalation and triangulation guidance of education quality concerns

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