Major Review of healthcare programmes

QAA carries out reviews of all NHS-funded healthcare programmes as part of a contract with Skills for Health, in partnership with the Department for Health (DH), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the Health Professions Council (HPC) and the Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs). This review process, known as Major Review, is part of the Partnership Quality Assurance Framework for Healthcare Education.

The review process

Handbook for major review of healthcare programmes - HTML version | PDF version
Including details on how the process works, guidelines for producing self-evaluation documents and the role of the relevant partner organisations

Procedures on representations
Available to a higher education institution jointly with its partner placement providers where either or both of the following conditions apply: the reviewers have expressed 'no confidence' in the academic and practitioner standards, or the reviewers have judged the quality of learning opportunities to be 'failing'.

Final review trends report 2003-06 - HTML version | PDF version
Review trends fact sheets 2003-06 - HTML version | PDF version
Annual Review Trends Report 2004-05
Annual Review Trends Report 2003-04
Major Review Trends Fact Sheet (2004-05) HTML version | PDF version

Events

Action Planning Forum 2006

Other Major Review resources

• QAA Health team contact details
• Fact sheet for healthcare practitioners and academics
• Executive guide
• Frequently asked questions
• Visit to practice pro formas - Word document
• Student work pro forma for longitudinal case study - Word document
• Student work pro forma - Word document
• Guidance for quantitative data

Other quality assurance publications

• Code of practice for the assurance of academic quality and standards in higher education
• The framework for higher education qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
• Subject benchmark statements

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