National Skills Academy for Health

General information

Support staff make up nearly a third of our nation’s healthcare workforce.

The National Skills Academy for Health works with employers to ensure this vital sector of the workforce gets the training they need to do the job they love, creating and maintaining the high quality health service we all want.

There are more than half a million support staff working across a range of healthcare settings.

Our vision, and that of the employers with whom we work, is to create a qualified and transferable workforce, with every individual recognised and valued for the skills they have, and encouraged and enabled to develop the skills they want and need.

We work on a not-for-profit basis, to meet five objectives:

* improving the quality of training provision available to healthcare support workers
* ensuring managers know how and where they can access great training for their staff
* helping our members make the best use of their support workforce now and in the future
* offering practical support to help our members make the best use of the workforce skills
* building capability, to free up professionally qualified clinical staff.