GPN Ready and Apprentice HCA schemes open for applications

Last week Primary Care First, our local Advanced Training Practice hub based at College Lane Surgery, Ackworth announced that funding for the 2017/18 GP Nurse Ready and Apprentice HCA schemes. These are great schemes that support practices to appoint newly registered nurses to become practice nurses and new apprentices to become HCAs. Across Wakefield previous GPN ready schemes are starting to have an impact on the GP nurse workforce with the number of nurses under 35 years of age nearly doubling in the last two years. The number has increase from 7 wte to 15 wte - so the scheme is making a difference.

For the GPN Ready scheme there is £8,000 to support practices over two years. Practices receive £1,500 when a new nurse joins them and about £1,500 when the new nurse has a mentor qualification in year 2 of the scheme. The remaining £5,000 is held by Primary Care First of commission and provide training for the GPN in the first two years of their employment in general practice.

For the HCA Apprentice scheme practices receive a bursary of £6,800 to be use of offset the training costs of the HCA Apprentice.

More details from Claire Broome or Sara Thackray at College Lane Surgery, Ackworth - 01977 614090 or click on the links to email them.


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