Flying Start NHS
Flying Start NHS® is a web based learning programme for newly qualified nurses, midwives and allied health professionals.
Designed to be completed by the practitioner within their first year in practice to enhance confidence and capability, the programme is learner directed and designed to encourage good practice development for a life long learning journey.
When newly qualified practitioners are effectively supported to complete Flying Start NHS they can work within a safe scope of practice, work confidently with patients and carers, and be effective members of multi-professional and multi-agency teams they work within.
Supporting newly qualified practitioners is not new practice and Flying Start NHS builds on existing activity. By mirroring the NHS KSF development review process, it offers a structured and integrated approach to development for both the new practitioner and their workplace mentor.
The programme has been widely used within NHSScotland and is now undertaken by practitioners within NHS England. In addition to this Queensland Health in Australia are about to undertake a Flying Start pilot for their AHP practitioners.
