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Guardian Live Chat: Health and Social Care – what needs to change? Friday 17 May 12:00 – 14:00 The recent reports by Sir Robert Francis and Sir Brian Jarman have left an unsettling nervousness around patient safety in the NHS and the role of higher education and training in preparing students for it. The learning and teaching of health and social care students is a key factor in successful patient care, and recent years have seen dramatic changes. As the health sector evolves and diversifies so does health education. Learning and teaching is now delivered in a variety of settings including hospitals, clinics and the community, and using a range of techniques that aim to improve clinical practice through an understanding of all the factors that can influence it. But what do these changes mean for students and how are new pressures impacting the taught health and social care curriculum in higher and further education? Join us for our Guardian Live Chat today, Friday 17 May from 12:00 to 14:00 BST where, along with the panel of experts, we will be addressing these questions and discussing some of the innovative teaching techniques currently being introduced to institutions and their effect on patient care. To find out more, take part in the discussion and share your university’s innovative teaching techniques, visit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/2013/may/13/healthcare-reforms-teaching-learning-patient-care. Panel Geoff Glover, assistant director and head of health and social care at the Higher Education Academy<http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/> Jane Priestley, academic development officer and lead for public patient involvement at the Higher Education Academy <http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/> Wendy Reid, professor and medical director at Health Education England<http://hee.nhs.uk/> Jane Reid, nurse advisor at National Patient Safety Agency<http://www.npsa.nhs.uk/> and senior academic at Bournemouth University <http://home.bournemouth.ac.uk/> Keren Williamson, course leader in radiography and lecturer in radiotherapy and oncology at Cardiff University<http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/sohcs/index.html> Bryn Baxendale, professor and director at Trent Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre<https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/our-services/all-services/trent-simulation>, and president of the Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare <http://www.aspih.org.uk/> Keith Brown, professor and head of post qualification practice-based learning at Bournemouth University<http://home.bournemouth.ac.uk/> Helen Vosper, lecturer in biomedical sciences at Robert Gordon University<http://www.rgu.ac.uk/> Gerri Nevin, head of department for clinical skills and simulation at Birmingham City University<http://www.bcu.ac.uk/> David Cox, student at Durham Medical School<https://www.dur.ac.uk/school.health/phase1.medicine/> This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies. Please do not disclose, copy, or distribute information in this email nor take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Please note that views expressed in this email are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Higher Education Academy. Please note that this e-mail has been created in the knowledge that Internet e-mail is not a secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when e-mailing us. Although we have taken steps to ensure this e-mail and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. The Higher Education Academy Registered No 4930131