Evaluating the Nursing Associate Role: Initial Findings

The Nursing Assistant programme was launched in early 2017 in two waves 11 pilot and 14 ‘fast follower’ sites, respectively taking-on 1,000 Trainee Nursing Associates (TNA).

There were subsequent waves, with 5,000 TNAs recruited in 2018 and 7,500 in 2019. It is a role, which attracts interest given its capacity to address a variety of workforce and care management goals.

However, as with the introduction of any new role, there are organisational challenges to be faced in ensuring that it becomes established at the workplace level and accepted by the various actors with a stake in it, including nurses, managers, healthcare assistants and service users.

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