Working With NHS Employers & Healthcare Providers

Supporting the development and assurance of numerical confidence and competence within NHS Employers & Healthcare providers

SN@P Assessment & Education work in partnership with UK wide Healthcare providers to support skill building and progress monitoring of numeracy relevant to:

    Medicines Management

    SN@P supports medicines management through providing:
    • A valid and HEE recongised response to medication error if the root cause is found to be numerical error
    • An offering to staff involved in medication error to ensure numeracy is not a contributing factor
    • Assessment resource to assure patient safety through ensuring numerical confidence and competence

    Include SN@P in your medicines management corporate induction talks

    Sign post SN@P as a response to medication error within standard operating procedures should the root cause of a drug incident prove to be a numerical fault

    CPD & Organisational Development of qualified and support workforce

    SN@P for your support workforce:
    • Offering to support staff for independent learning around numeracy contextualised to health
    • Provides insight into the aspects and level of numeracy required to study or work within the health profession
    • Provides insight into the current numerical level support staff are at in relation to numeracy required for a career in health

    Development of functional numeracy skills

    Support staff to gain access to higher / further education clinical courses