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MSC Update

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Update: General

• MSC programme development within HEE National Programmes portfolio from 2012/13, led by MSC central team working with others

• Transition of responsibility from MSC central team to new bodies - National School of Healthcare Science (NSHCS) and Academy for Healthcare Science (AHCS) – set up to implement, manage and regulate MSC programmes and wider issues related to healthcare workforce


Scientist Training Programme (STP)

• STP well established in NSHCS – recruitment, monitoring progress, supporting training, quality assurance, exit assessment

• First cohort of STP graduates 2014/15

• Considerable expansion of STP programmes from initial cohort of 20 trainees in genetics to predicted intake of some 280 across 30 specialisms in 2015/16


Higher Specialist Scientific Training (HSST)

• HSST programme development supported by MSC central team concludes end of 2014/15

• Responsibility for managing HSST programme fully to NSHCS in 2015/16

• NSHCS already managing first (2014/15) HSST cohort and preparing for second in 2015/16

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Higher Specialist Scientific Training (HSST)

• AHCS preparing for HSS Registration in 2015/16 – draft standards of proficiency published December 2014

• for 3-month consultation

• Consultant Clinical Scientist project – later in agenda


Accredited Scientific Practice (ASP)

• ASP provides accredited post-qualification CPPD for HCS workforce driven by workforce, service and patient needs

• Intended to be available at all levels of MSC Career Framework

• ASP has been undergoing development/piloting

• ASP Framework scheduled for publication March 2015

• Responsibility for ASP to transfer to NSHCS 2015/16


Career Framework 2-4 (CF 2-4)

• Development work currently with MSC central team

• Curricula and learning resources in development

• Level 4 being developed by FD Development Group

• Work being taken forward with School and Academy on assessment, accreditation, registration

• Transition of responsibility in 2015/16 to NSHCS to manage programme and to AHCS for registration issues


CF 2-4 Apprenticeships

• Apprenticeships - consultation on three draft standards for CF 2-4 ended 12 January 2015

• Standards to be submitted to BIS formal panel in June 2015

• Apprenticeships will integrate with wider CF 2-4 development and implementation

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