Cathy McCusker, Senior Professional Officer
NIPEC is responsible for monitoring and reviewing the access to education for the ethnically diverse workforces of nurses, midwives, AHPs and their support staff in Health and Social Care Trusts.
To help take this work forward NIPEC has recruited a Professional Officer for Ethnic Diversity for each Trust and for the Independent Sector who is working alongside the NIPEC Project Lead, Cathy McCusker.
View the Powerpoint presentation from recent workshop.(PDF)
Project Background
NIPEC completed a baseline survey in June 2022 and a follow-up survey in December 2022 to monitor the access to education. Read the survey report March 2023.
An update report was shared at the first meeting of NIPEC Project Board for Ethnic Diversity Co-Chaired by Beena Tharun, Assistant Services Manager, BHSCT and Cathy Lavery, Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, SHSCT Read the update report March 2024.
Useful Sites
The UK ENIC site is useful for those needing to check the comparability of education.
The NMC has a pathway to support internationally educated nurses or midwives joining the register who have been forcibly displaced from their country eg a Refugee or Asylum Seeker
See Frequently Asked Questions about ENIC at bottom of this page in FAQ section.
Progress
In December 2022 the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) also requested NIPEC to set up a regional collaborative to support the progression of “equal access to education and leadership opportunities for all”. The collaborative met 28 March 2023. View the Powerpoint presentation (PDF).
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