Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Overview

In 2023, the UK government released its NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, with some ambitious recruitment targets: growing the total workforce by 2.6-2.9% each year, including an extra 170,000-190,000 nurses by 2036/37. Apprenticeships will have an important role to play in achieving those targets.
An organisation that is already making good use of apprenticeships is Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT), which provides a range of services across mental health, adults, children and learning disability communities in Northamptonshire. It has a policy of growing its own talent, with 90 nursing apprentices on its programme currently, many of them through The Open University (OU).