The document outlines the challenges and strategies in shaping the future nursing workforce in England, emphasizing the need for appropriate numbers, skills, and values across generations. It highlights current developments such as the Care Certificate, new nursing roles, and the diversity within the nursing profession, which includes both registered nurses and non-registered care assistants. Key themes include workforce transformation to address the evolving healthcare needs and the importance of mentorship for new nurses entering the field.

1. A Nursing Workforce for the Future
Professor Lisa Bayliss-Pratt
Director of Nursing & Deputy Director Education
and Quality

2. Nursing in the 21st century
@NHS_HealthEdEng
2012
Health and Social
Care Act
Winterbourne View
HEE established in
shadow
Compassion in
Practice - 6 'Cs'
2013
Francis Report
Keogh Mortality
Review
Cavendish Review
HEE established
Workforce Plan for
England
2014
NICE safe staffing
guidance
NHS Five Year
Forward View
Come Back to
Nursing Campaign
2015
Morecambe Bay
Shape of Caring
Review
Comprehensive
Spending Review
Highlights include:

3. Our Mission
HEE:
• to ensure the
workforce of today and
tomorrow has the right
numbers, skills, values
and behaviours, at the
right time and in the
right place.

4. Current challenges

5. Mind the (generational) gap
‘Baby Boomers’ ‘Generation X’ ‘Generation Y’ ‘Generation Z’
1946-1964 1965-1980 1981-1994 1995-2010
Motivated and hard
working; define self-
worth by work and
accomplishments.
Practical self-
starters, but work-
life balance
important.
Ambitious, with high
career expectations;
need mentorship
and reassurance.
Highly innovative,
but will expect to be
informed. Personal
freedom is essential.
25% of the NHS
workforce
40% of the NHS
workforce
35% of the NHS
workforce
<5% of the NHS
workforce
Jones K, Warren A, Davies A. 2015. Mind the Gap: Exploring the needs of early
career nurses and midwives in the workplace. Summary report from

6. Recent developments:
• Care Certificate
• Efficiency and safe
staffing
• Revalidation
• Fees and bursaries
• New routes to registration
• Evidencing care hours
• Announcement of a new
nursing role

7. What we learned:
Shape of Caring Themes

8. Workforce profile:
Registered Nursing Workforce
Nursing is a diverse profession.
There are 692,973 nurses and
midwives on the NMC register.
The workforce census 2014 identified
377,191 (headcount) Nurses,
Midwives, Health Visitors and General
Practice Nurses working across acute
and community settings.
Employers are transforming how they
develop their nursing workforce to
meet the increasing and changing
needs of the population.
Non-Registered Workforce
There are approx 1.3 million
frontline staff working as Care
Assistants.
They deliver a large proportion of
direct care in hospitals, care homes
and the homes of individuals.
They support the delivery of care
across all disciplines and services:
diverse skills and competences

9. Building
the capacity
to care
PhDExecutive Nurse
Care Assistant Care Certificate

10. ‘Nursing Associate’
A new concept in health and care:
• What would you want the new role to do?
• What shouldn’t they do?
• What oversight should be in place?

11. Next
steps

12. Thank you