Short-termist policy which has massive impact on future of CPD, trained nurses etc. It's very serious situation at present.

For some local courses e.g. End of Life Care, we have gone to the students instead of students coming to us.

e-learning is growing - cancernursing.org is an example of this but needs accreditation.

Education seems to be first to be cut in our Network - no study leave is granted apart from 'essential' and therefore there is more self responsiblity and own time used.

I agree with Marie.
In our trust all nurses in education posts have had to suspend their normal duties and become part of the workforce to stop the use of bank, agency and overtime.
Because the majority of people are in these roles because they love developing staff they are taking this opportunity to do as much bedside teaching as possible while they are working.
The reduction in study time is also having an impact on the local university where for this coming semester 22 modules have been cancelled due to insufficient numbers. This is not affecting staffing this time but if it continues it will certainly affect the stability of those employed there.
We have no idea currently what the situation will be like come April but none of us are niave enough to think that things will just return to how they were before. So watch this space.

Despite best efforts, our group of Cancer CNS' had to cancel our Cancer Journey course for trained nurses last year due to lack of bookings. On talking with ward staff & managers, they want to attend these courses but are unable to as they are needed to cover the wards due to restrictions on bank/agency use. When bringing teaching/education onto the wards with an hours session during the cross-over of staff time, there were very few attendees. They were just too busy to attend. It appears that education/development is not high on the agenda & yet it is every nurses responsibility to remain up-dated!

Cuts in education funding and time is a worldwide phenomena. I agree that it is really important and changes need to be made. Nurses have to want to learn too ie be motivated to do on their own and that is where UKONS can help with no or low cost local meetings where topical presentations can be given in the early evening for a couple of hours. This worked well in US where I lived for a while and particpated in ONS at a local and national level.