Healthcare professionals have continually evolved to meet the changing health & social care landscapes to respond to the various Scottish, UK and international policies.
Since 2017, there has been eight transforming roles papers to support healthcare professionals and services to adapt to the strategic oversight, direction and governance to adapt to the Scottish population needs (click on direct links to the papers)
Transforming Roles Aims
Developing and transforming nursing, midwifery and allied health professions (NMAHP) roles to meet the current and future needs of Scotland’s health and care system.
Ensuring nationally consistent, sustainable and progressive roles, education and career pathways across professions, services and Boards
Career structure and clarity around levels on practice
Clarity in understanding roles
Development of roles using a consistent process
- Scottish Government (2017) Paper 1 Introduction
- Scottish Government (2017) Paper 2 Advancing Nursing Roles
- Scottish Government (2017) Paper 3 District Nursing Roles
- Scottish Government (2018) Paper 4 School Nursing Role
- Scottish Government (2018) Paper 5 Education and Career Development
- Scottish Government (2018) Paper 6 Integrated Community Nursing Teams
- Scottish Government (2021) Paper 7 Advanced Nursing Practice Phase ii
- Scottish Government (2021) Paper 8 Clinical Nurse Specialist and Nurse Practitioner Roles
- Scottish Government (2025) Paper 9 Allied Health Professionals (in progress)
National Health Service (NHS) Education for Scotland: Guides and Frameworks
NHS Education for Scotland provide various resources to identify you education, career and professional pathways (click for direct link)
NHS Education for Scotland “Advanced Practice Toolkit” to support all aspects of Advanced Practice, including:
- Definitions
- Differentiating Specialist and Advanced Practice
- Capability Frameworks
- National minimum competencies
There are also many resources relating to the other pillars of practice which are essential to robust preparation for practice and ongoing role development.
As well as the information and resources available on the NES webpages, there are International and UK National working ongoing progress (See Useful Resources page).
National Centre Remote and Rural Health Care (NCRRHC)
- Remote and Rural Health Care Hub provides remote, rural and island health and care relevant information to assist colleagues across NHS Scotland with easy access to learning resources.
- Rural Workplace Advanced Practice Supervision Hub provides education to enable sustainable health and social care service improvement, wellbeing while in living and working in a remote, rural and island settings.
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