Policy

The Council’s policy work is focused on five portfolios across the UK:

Workforce
Research
Regulation
Global
Education impact

The Council also works on sustainable funding, public affairs and data.

UCAS application data for March 2018

25 Apr 2018 in Data, News & blogs, Policy, Reports & Briefings, Workforce

Our briefing on undergraduate nursing applications processed by UCAS ahead of the 24 March deadline shows a 10 per cent decrease compared to the 2017 cycle. However, they have only decreased in England and Northern Ir... Read More »

Council welcomes confirmation of additional teaching funds for healthcare courses

6 Apr 2018 in News & blogs, Sustainable Funding

The Council of Deans of Health has welcomed the announcement by the Office for Students, the new regulator for higher education in England, of continued additional funding to support undergraduate nursing, midwifery a... Read More »

Thirteen Council nominees appointed to REF 2021 Sub-panel 3

28 Mar 2018 in Research

HEFCE announced on 23 March 2018 the first set of appointments to the sub-panels for the REF 2021 exercise. The Council of Deans of Health is delighted that 13 of our nominees were successful. For the criteria setting... Read More »

Preventing pressure ulcers: developing a framework of collaborative research and working across partners in health and social care settings

11 Jan 2018 in Blogs, News & blogs, Research

Yitka Graham, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, School of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Sunderland and NIHR Speciality Group Lead for both Health Services Research and Public Health: North East and North ... Read More »

UCAS 2017 End of Cycle Report: patterns by subject

12 Dec 2017 in Data, Policy, Reports & Briefings, Workforce

Following the publication of the second wave of the UCAS 2017 end of cycle report, we have produced a briefing which examines the application and acceptance data for B7 Nursing programmes. UCAS has confirmed to us tha... Read More »

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