The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 268 No 7187 p274-79
2 March 2002

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Funding for joint training initiatives

Joint training programmes for undergraduates studying health care disciplines will be developed over the next two years. King's College London, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Southampton have received £2.5m from the Department of Health for the shared initiatives.

The new courses will aim to improve team-working skills, promote positive attitudes between students of different professions and enhance communication and problem solving skills. It will include joint training for medical and nursing undergraduates as well as for students from at least two allied health care professions. A steering group, including representatives from the four universities, will be set up to manage the progress and delivery of the programme.

Professor Ian Norman, King's College London, said that from September, pharmacy, medicine, nursing, dentistry, nutrition, midwifery and physiotherapy undergraduate students at King's will take part in the new programme, which will continue throughout their training. Students will start with shared teaching of communication skills and health care ethics in their first year and move on to to joint decision making and care planning.

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