Professional strategy for nursing and midwifery - defining the next era of nursing and midwifery

Overview

The professional strategy for nursing and midwifery will set out a compelling vision for the long-term future of our professions up to 2040 focussing on our professions’ vital role in delivering the ambitions for a modern health and care system in England.

To do this we need to consider how our professions will transform to meet the needs of our changing population across all settings and embrace opportunities in the context of the wider strategic direction of travel, including commitments in the 10 Year Health Plan.

To frame this part of the conversation, we have identified a number of areas focussed on our professions’ role in:

• working in and with our neighbourhoods and communities
• prevention and health promotion
• addressing global health challenges
• research and innovation
• digital and technology

We also need to consider how we better support all nurses, midwives and nursing associates to maximise opportunities throughout their career

We are also interested to hear your views on how we support our professions more broadly through:

• developing a professional narrative that reflects the modern role of nursing and midwifery and makes our professions a modern career of choice
• how we can develop and improve our approach to professional education to reflect the modern needs of practice.
• how we develop career pathways, underpinned by effective education and training to support nurses, midwives and nursing associates to continue to develop during their careers.
• how we can improve our professional cultures and better support the wellbeing of our professions.

This initial conversation is designed to gain insight on the different areas of the framework. Space is also provided for you to add further thoughts.

If you want to read more about the professional strategy for nursing and midwifery, being developed by the CNO for England, visit the NHS England website.

Privacy notice

The survey also asks respondents to provide some information about yourself such as your age and ethnicity. This information is used to ensure the responses are representative of the demographics of the whole population. You do not have to provide this information to take part in the survey and there will be an option if you prefer not to respond to each question.

Any reports published using the insights from the questionnaire will not contain any personal identifiable information. Feedback will be used to develop content for the final published strategy. Any feedback shared will only ever be in anonymous format. Please do not include any personal data in the free text fields, any personal data you use disclosure to us will noy be used and it will be deleted. 

Your involvement is voluntary, and you are free to stop completing the questionnaire at any time. Only submitted responses will be included in the analysis. You can also refuse to answer questions in this survey, should you wish.

All information collected via the survey will be held until the publication of the professional strategy for nursing and midwifery has been completed. We expect this to be for a period of six months from the date of survey closure, in line with the Records Management Code of Practice for Health and Social Care 2021.

NHS England’s Privacy Notice describes how we use personal data and explains how you can contact us and invoke your rights as a data subject. We will process your information in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018.