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The Scottish Executive will commission:
- integrated research to give better core information on workforce
numbers, workload and the working experiences of nurses and
midwives
- research on the appropriate qualities for entry to nursing
and midwifery training, to form part of student entry assessment
and recruitment of nurses and midwives
- research into the activities of nurses at different levels
within NHSScotland, to inform the Workforce Centres' research
on future patterns of working
- research into the factors that would entice non-practising
nurses and midwives back into practice
- research into the effectiveness of nurse consultants, to
inform decisions about further expansion and their role in
the career pathway
- evaluation of the Flexible Ways of Working/Flexible Ways
of Thinking training programme and the pilots of nurse and
midwife temporary cover schemes.
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