Policy

The Council’s policy work is focused on specific areas including research, regulation, sector sustainability, innovation and pedagogy, and equality, diversity and inclusion.

The Council also works on sustainable funding, public affairs and data.

Promoting Student Research – Research Month 2023

15 Feb 2023 in CoDHcast, Policy, Research, Research Month

Megan Isherwood, Policy Officer at the Council speaks to Professor Ruth Endacott and Joy O’Gorman about how they help to encourage students to engage in research. Ruth and Joy recently helped to set up a new cat... Read More »

FAIResearch: Supporting Inclusivity – Research Month 2023

11 Feb 2023 in Research Month

Dr Anita Atwal and Meera Sharma from the FAIResearch team are joined by a panel of speakers to discuss what fair research means in healthcare, particularly in the allied health professions, and how to ensure that rese... Read More »

The impact of metrics, CARIN annual survey – Research Month Blog 2023

9 Feb 2023 in Blogs, Clinical Academic Roles Implementation Network, News & blogs, Policy, Research, Research Month

Blog by Professor Jane Coad, Chair of CARIN, Professor Mary Wells Metrics and Impact Lead for CARIN, and Robyn Cooke As part of its work to support and improve clinical academic careers for nurses, midwives and allied... Read More »

Briefing: UCAS January Application Data 2023

9 Feb 2023 in Data, Policy

The Council of Deans of Health has produced a briefing summarising UCAS data on applicants to undergraduate nursing and midwifery courses across the UK ahead of the January 2023 deadline. Read the briefing: January 20... Read More »

Briefing: UCAS End of Cycle Data 2022

8 Dec 2022 in Data, Policy

UCAS has published a series of data resources and a press release as part of the 2022 End of Cycle release. The statistics show the acceptance numbers into UK nursing and midwifery higher education courses. The Counci... Read More »