title: A learning and development strategy for children's hospices across London.
abstract: Over recent years there have been several political imperatives in the UK directed toward children's palliative care and ensuring that services are high-quality, coordinated, family-centred, and able to meet the needs of children with complex disabilities. In addition, in 2010 the health and social care regulation authority in England-the Care Quality Commission (CQC)-aligned hospices with regulation and inspection requirements. This context has acted as a driver for the creation of effective education and training to ensure a skilled and expert workforce. Against this backdrop, this paper describes a project to develop a learning and development strategy for Children's Hospices across London (CHaL). CHaL educators worked with a research team to develop a unified strategy that was based on evidence of good practice, embedded in required CQC outcomes, and validated with a wider audience. The resultant strategy contains a set of four key learning and development principles that are applicable and transferable across different hospices.
authors: Center for Health Service Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent. j.r.billings@kent.ac.uk
authors: Jenny
authors: J
authors: Billings
authors: Linda
authors: L
authors: Jenkins
authors: Rachel
authors: R
authors: Black
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D004517:Education, Professional / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006291:Health Policy; D006738:Hospices / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration; D008131:London; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom; D000078329:Workforce