Healthcare science national delivery plan consultation: analysis of responses
This report provides an analysis of responses to our consultation on proposals for a healthcare science national delivery plan.
6.0 Summary of Responses
87% of all responses where supportive of the Healthcare Science consultation proposals.
Graph 12 shows the percentage and count of respondents' replies where they stated an opinion for a proposal within the consultation document. Opinion statement replies have been categorised as Agree, Disagree and Mixed.
Graph 13 shows the count of respondent replies where they disagreed with a proposal within the consultation document.
Table 1 gives additional information around the 4% of the responses that disagreed with the proposals list below.
Table 1 - The Proposals with Disagreements and the Number of 'Disagree' Comments.
| Work stream |
Proposal |
# Disagree |
|---|---|---|
| Leadership |
Each NHS board shall appoint a HCS professional lead and establish a reporting structure to an executive board member, who should encourage HCS leads to adopt corporate leadership roles in clinical engagement, inter-professional working and local planning processes. |
2 |
| Leadership |
HCS leads (and the national lead) will work collaboratively with senior management to develop integrated models of service provision in physical sciences and engineering, covering areas such as medical equipment management. The full potential of the clinical technology workforce will be scoped and utilised to improve the quality and coherence of services. |
2 |
| Leadership |
Each NHS board should seek to strengthen and support the ongoing work of local HCS forums. These will work with the HCS lead to improve service visibility and cohesion, ensure inclusion in board-level decision-making and develop HCS services to meet local users' needs. |
1 |
| Leadership |
HCS leads will consider how to strengthen HCS leadership within and across agencies; identifying HCS line managers' development, training and support needs and promoting the values and behaviours expected in relation to the Staff Governance Standard and quality ambitions. |
1 |
| Workforce |
NES will explore education solutions to support HCS staff that may be required to supervise HCS assistants. |
1 |
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