Statutory and Mandatory Training in Health and Social Care: A Toolkit for Good Practice

Citation

(2005), "Statutory and Mandatory Training in Health and Social Care: A Toolkit for Good Practice", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 18 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2005.06218fae.003

Statutory and Mandatory Training in Health and Social Care: A Toolkit for Good Practice

Wendy Garcarz and Emma WilcoxRadciffe Publishing2005ISBN 1 85775 686 X

Keywords: Clinical governance, Competency standards, Risk management framework

This practical reference has been designed to support health and social care organisations wanting to create a structured approach to statutory and mandatory training, to review existing training or just to make improvements to ensure legal compliance and safe working practices. It provides logical, step-by-step guidance to reassure managers and trainers that they are meeting their legal responsibilities and therefore minimising the risk of litigation. It also offers frameworks and templates for assessing and recording competence and identifying further training needs.

Statutory and Mandatory Training in Health and Social Care will be useful to everyone involved in training with responsibilities at strategic operational level, and particularly to chief executives, directors and senior managers, human resources staff, safety offices, clinical governance managers, cross infection nurses, community and school nurses and managers of GP surgeries, care homes, residential nursing homes, day centre and nurseries.