Exploring the issues.

Abstract

In the previous article, I gave an overview of National Vocational Qualifications and the structures which give support on a national and local basis, an understanding of which is essential before informed judgements can be made and implementation successfully achieved. This second article will address some of the issues which have raised concern within operating departments throughout the country, but which must be resolved if the needs to ensure effective staffing levels in the future are to be met. It is inevitable that there will be no easy answers and equally true that each and every operating departments and ODP assessment centre will address the issues in a different way. Our joint and ultimate aim is that of providing a high standard of patient care and, for once, there is a flexibility within the training system to facilitate just that!