Kirstie Sharpe

The integration of health and social care services becoming statute in 2022 requires an update of all health and social care educational curriculum, to ensure that programmes actively reflect both current progression into integrated services and to prepare newly qualified professionals for the increasingly integrated care systems they will practice within. This project seeks to develop a fully integrated curriculum model for all undergraduate students across the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences to provide interdisciplinary education for students on both professional and wider health and social care programmes. To achieve this the project will implement the following objectives:

Objective 1: Achieve University Ethics approval for the project.

Objective 2: Identify, assemble and develop a core team of interdisciplinary academic staff across the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences to become the project steering and development group.

Objective 3: Map benchmark standards required across professional groups taught at the University to identify the needs of student populations in regard to their competency in integrated care.

Objective 4: Construct learning outcomes required for the curriculum framework based on the mapping and University unit requirements including credit attainment, length of programme and integration into current courses.

Objective 5: Develop curriculum content and structuring including assignment planning/outputs where required and integration into current courses.

Objective 6: Develop implementation plan to include delivery model, staffing requirements, student enrolment/engagement, timetabling and budgeting.

Objective 7: Utilise University Quality Handbook to identify and enact approval processes for internal and external implementation.