Health Minister meets students

Professor Ann Keen, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health and Janet Davies, Executive Director from the Royal College of Nursing visited our nursing students.

Professor Keen and Janet Davies were shown our facilities in the School of Health & Social Care by the School’s Dean, Professor Paul Keane, before meeting current nursing students.

Janet Davies spoke to students about the opportunities and challenges facing new entrants to the nursing profession, and Professor Keen outlined her views on the future of the nursing profession. The speeches were followed by a question and answer session with the students. Innovative nursing programmes Professor Keane said: 'I am delighted that Janet Davies and Professor Keen visited our School of Health & Social Care which delivers excellent and innovative nursing programmes, but more importantly the quality of our graduates is commended on a regular basis by the Strategic Health Authority, NHS and Primary Care Trusts.

'It gave us an opportunity to share with them, on how nursing can be further enhanced from both an education and clinical perspective as well as discussing the proposal of moving towards an all graduate profession.' Health Minister Ann Keen MP said: 'I am delighted to be able to meet and speak with tomorrow’s nurses. Having worked as a nurse for over 25 years, I have seen first hand how fulfilling a career in nursing can be. It always gives me great pleasure to meet people who are working on the frontline, as well as those just starting out in this rewarding profession.'

Janet Davies said: 'It gave me great pleasure to visit one of the North’s leading universities for nursing education. Teesside University has been consistently rated as either 'outstanding' or 'good' across a broad range of measures by the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s quality assurance review. 'The School of Health & Social Care is one of the jewels in the crown of Teesside University.'

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