HEIW launches national consultation for Advanced Care Practitioner (ACP) Competency Framework for primary care

Until now, there has been no attempt in Wales to define the competencies required to undertake advanced clinical practice within primary or community care.

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is thrilled to address this through the development of the Advanced Care Practitioner Competency Framework. The framework has been developed in partnership with professionals from all health boards across NHS Wales.

Clinicians in primary and community care are invited to provide feedback on the framework via an online form, to help refine it and tailor it to their daily practice.

The feedback form closes on 20 July 2024.

The framework is beneficial to ACPs as it will allow them to:

• define the competencies required to work in primary and community care at an advanced level. The individual self-assesses their own competency against a series of domains and identifies the key competencies required within their scope of practice).
• map their own education and training needs to maintain and extend their scope of practice, to the type of resources needed to achieve that competency
• provide clear ‘scope of practice’ descriptors for each year of training, and planning their development, while being clear on their current scope of practice
• detail the core clinical skills which sit behind each area of practice / indicative presentation

For further information, please visit the ACP framework webpage.