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From ‘part of ’ to ‘partnership’: the changing relationship between nurse education and the National Health Service
Author(s) -
Gillett Karen
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nursing inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.66
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1440-1800
pISSN - 1320-7881
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2010.00496.x
Subject(s) - general partnership , ideology , nurse education , government (linguistics) , nursing , service provider , public relations , public administration , health policy , national policy , political science , politics , economic growth , sociology , service (business) , medicine , public health , business , economics , marketing , linguistics , philosophy , law
GILLETT K . Nursing Inquiry 2010; 17 : 197–207
From ‘part of ’ to ‘partnership’: the changing relationship between nurse education and the National Health Service Worldwide, many countries have moved towards incorporating nurse education into the higher education sector and this inevitably has implications for the relationship between nurse education providers and local health service providers. This study explores the changes to the relationship in the UK between nurse education providers and the UK National Health Service over the past 20 years and demonstrates how two political ideologies have been central to those changes. The two ideologies of interest are the introduction of internal markets to the National Health Service by the Conservative government at the end of the 1980s and the New Labour response to the fragmentation of public services caused by Conservative neoliberal policy, which was to introduce the notion of ‘partnership working’. This study reviews the wider debate around partnership policy and applies that debate to evaluate the way that nurse education providers and the National Health Service are working in partnership to provide clinical practice placements for nursing students.