Reimagining Clinical Placements

This is a collaborative project led by clinical, workforce and educational leaders from across Leeds health and social care partners, building on the brilliant work of the Leeds Clinical Placement Expansion Project (CPEP). The aim of the project is to challenge the constraints of the traditional clinical placement model to attract, retain and support learners in more diverse and rewarding health and care pathways. The focus is around analysing workforce data to understand where capacity can be increased; focusing on alternative methods of placement delivery, such as virtual reality, simulated placements, and student-led clinics; expanding placement capacity by introducing more Private, Independent, Voluntary Organisation (PIVO) placements by utilising the indirect supervision model and re-thinking the culture around student placements, developing leadership and ensuring quality of placements. If you are looking for PIVO placements, please see our dedicated PIVO webpage.

We understand the need to shift focus towards investing more in prevention, early intervention, and rehabilitation to mitigate avoidable growth in secondary care. This is in line with the approach of the Health and Care partnership to deliver the Health and Wellbeing strategy and Healthy Leeds Plan. One way to collectively support this shift is by ensuring placement capacity across different sectors to promote careers of choice beyond secondary care settings to align with evolving care delivery models.

We want to recognise, celebrate and share examples of best practice that exist locally, regionally and nationally in clinical placements. The document library below showcases some of the great work that has taken place across defined workstreams: