Higher education services

Tender description

The Health Service Executive (on behalf of all Publicly Funded Health Agencies) invites tenders from suitably qualified parties capable of offering post-graduate nurse and midwife education in Ireland, to develop and deliver education programmes at NFQ Level 9 for advanced nursing and advanced midwifery practice for up to 110 nurses and midwives per academic year. This tender exercise will be conducted with the HEI’s that offer nurse/midwife education, to select a provider(s) that can offer both a 1 year graduate certificate education programme and a 2-year part-time option for a broad based masters level education programme – advanced practice nursing and advanced practice midwifery to commence in September 2020. The Health Service Executive (on behalf of all Publicly Funded Health Agencies) invites tenders from suitably qualified parties capable of offering post-graduate nurse and midwife education in Ireland, to develop and deliver education programmes at NFQ Level 9 for advanced nursing and advanced midwifery practice for up to 110 nurses and midwives per academic year. This tender exercise will be conducted with the HEI’s that offer nurse/midwife education, to select a provider(s) that can offer both a one year graduate certificate education programme and a 2 year part-time option for a broad based Masters level education programme – Advanced Practice Nursing and Advanced Practice Midwifery to commence in September 2020. The Department of Health published a new model for developing advanced nursing and advanced midwifery practice with the publication of ‘A Policy on the Development of Graduate to Advanced Nursing and Midwifery Practice’ in July 2019: https://assets.gov.ie/19260/f49c5ea1a19843b0aae20151aeaf694d.pdf The implementation of this policy will be critical to the implementation of the Sláintecare health reform programme and expanding the contribution of advanced nurse and advanced midwife practitioners in delivering the objectives of the health reform programme. https://webarchive.oireachtas.ie/parliament/media/committees/futureofhealthcare/oireachtas-committee-on-the-future-of-healthcare-slaintecare-report-300517.pdf The evidence shows that when advanced practitioners are located in sufficient numbers in specific areas they can have a real impact on some of the key challenges in the health service. The new model goes a long way towards ensuring that care is delivered to the right person, at the right time and in the right place – as close to home as possible. Importantly, it also puts in place a career pathway for nurses and midwives, which is a key element in recruitment and retaining staff. The aim of the policy is to have 2 % of the nursing and midwifery workforce working as advanced n