Daniel Coderre, President and CEO of Génome Québec, and Daniel Bouthillier, CEO of the Quebec Network for Personalized Health Care (QNPHC), are pleased to announce that a tripartite agreement has been reached with Health Education England (HEE), which works across England to provide high-quality education and training to health care and health care workers. The parties to the tripartite agreement shall have access to information on the agreements governed by the agreement, and in particular on the resources allocated to placement providers. All funding agreements are part of the tripartite agreement between universities, colleges and clinical internship providers. Stakeholders are expected to comply with these principles. However, where the results of education and training have demonstrable benefits, the provisions should also aim to facilitate flexibility, innovation, patient and public participation and exposure to all interactions and clinical environments during all years of the Programme. It is expected that all local and national agreements can only exist in the context of providing innovative or new models of education delivery and learning experiences and must be tripartite between higher education institutions (HEIs), NHS traineeship providers and Health Education England (HEE). All funding agreements require a tripartite discussion between universities, NHS providers and HEE, as well as an agreement between THE HEE. HEE will be responsible for identifying and implementing the most appropriate funding channels for payments to intermediary providers. Avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach allows HEE to introduce different payment mechanisms where appropriate. For example, activities covered by learning and development agreements (which will be replaced in the future by the new NHS Education Contract) and involving a single placement provider may be remunerated differently from activities that potentially involve several small placement providers. One would expect such flexibility to lead to innovation in the provision of the learning environment. “The genomic revolution has led to more personalized healthcare, better prediction and disease prevention. To continue on this path, we must actively work to train the professionals of today and tomorrow by providing them with the tools and knowledge they need.
Forward-thinking countries such as the United Kingdom came to this conclusion early on and implemented strategies and mechanisms to deal with social change. Quebec must also join international efforts: the training of our health professionals in genomics is one of the cornerstones of their successful integration into our health system. With this in mind, we are very proud of this collaboration agreement with the United Kingdom, as it will help us learn from their extensive experience in specialized genomics education and training,” said Daniel Coderre, President and Chief Executive Officer of Génome Québec. 5.11 Rates do not apply to dental activities of the bachelor`s degree, including medical students as part of a medical internship (“medicine for dentistry”). Funding for dental internships remains subject to local agreements for 2021 to 2022, but there are plans to introduce a nationwide uniform payment for internships for dental students from April 2022. 6.5 Major employers offer an outsourced staffing and payroll system for a number of postgraduate trainees. Suppliers who host the post office receive the rate payment and must reimburse the salary costs to the primary employer. If there is an agreement between the main employer and the host, agreements can be made via HEE whereby appropriate salary payments must be made directly to the main employer. 7.9 Health Education England has introduced a new NHS Education Contract to replace the various contractual arrangements previously concluded (including the Learning and Development Agreement with NHS service providers). It is the type of activity, not the location of the training or who carries it out, that is relevant to deciding on the most appropriate source of funding.
For example, a component of clinical traineeship training would be funded collectively, even if it is conducted by an NHS clinician on the university campus – and conversely, an academic component of the medical education programme would be funded by the colleges, even if it is conducted by a clinician in NHS trust rooms. It is expected that the determination and agreement of the source of funding will be part of the tripartite discussions and agreements between the university, the NHS Trust and the HEE and should be timely, collegial and transparent and should be determined within the framework of the tripartite agreement on basic medical education introduced between the universities, colleges and clinical internship providers. 7.6 For the first time, this document brings together information on funding sources – LESE and others – in a single document and will be a point of contact for all those who wish to know more about how health education and training is financially supported. 3.6 In order to determine whether the training is not economically viable, the provider must be able to prove that: 2.2 Before the introduction of placement fees, payments for training places were subject to local regulations, which led to funding inequalities. Traineeship tariffs are intended to ensure that providers are paid uniformly for the training places they offer, that traineeships are of high quality and that learners develop the skills and knowledge necessary to meet their respective professional skills. 2.11 The 2022-2023 tariff proposal development schedule will align with the NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) financial programming schedule and will include an earlier and more comprehensive commitment to tariff changes than in previous years. .
