
We’ve Been Nominated!
14 August 2023 – We’re delighted that the NHS England National Preceptorship Team has been shortlisted for a Nursing Times Workforce Award for Preceptorship Programme of the Year.
Congratulations to all the nominees promoting the importance of preceptorship in their organisations.

First Year Review
Thank you to all the health and social care organisations who completed our First Year Review during June 2023. The purpose of the First Year Review was to assess the status of preceptorship following the launch of the National Preceptorship Framework and resources in October 2022. The full analysis of the national results is available here. Each regional lead will be sharing results within our communities of practice and working with preceptorship leads to identify action plans going forward.
The National Preceptorship Framework and National Preceptorship Model for England are now available.
The National Preceptorship Programme was established in November 2021 to design, develop and deliver a Preceptorship Framework for Nursing for England and associated quality standards for all health and social care organisations.
Preceptorship plays a key role in retention by setting in place a structure to support newly qualified professionals, allowing them to translate their knowledge into everyday practice, grow in confidence and have the best possible start in their careers.
The National Preceptorship Framework was designed and developed in collaboration with stakeholders and came into effect in October 2022. Through partnership working with new registrants and the organisations and professional groups that support them, the programme has brought people together to learn from and share best practice. These collectively agreed set of standards and framework for good practice are flexible and can be adapted to different settings, locations and types of organisation. A suite of resources have also been developed to support implementation of the framework.
This exciting programme has been developed under the leadership of Dr Jane Wray (clinical lead) and Desiree Cox (programme lead), with support from seven regional preceptorship leads and their communities of practice.
Resources to support the implementation of the National Preceptorship Framework (click to expand)
Events
Previous events and recordings
‘NPP – Establishing and Facilitating an Action Learning Set’ – 13 September 2023
‘NPP – Establishing and Facilitating an Action Learning Set’ – 20 July 2023
‘NPP – Establishing and Facilitating an Action Learning Set’ – 18 July 2023
‘NPP – Establishing and Facilitating an Action Learning Set’ – 6 July 2023
‘National Preceptorship Programme Update‘ – 30 May 2023
The slide presentation from the day of the event can be accessed here.
Watch the recording of the event here.
‘Preceptorship Matters – Celebrating Preceptorship’ Event – 20 March 2023
The recording of the ‘Preceptorship Matters – Celebrating Preceptorship’ event is in two sessions:
Morning session
Afternoon session
The slide presentation from the day of the event can be accessed here.
You can read the Question and Answers from the event here
Why does preceptorship matter? What is the value of preceptorship?
Have a look at some of the feedback we had from our wonderful event attendees.
Recordings of previous events can be accessed below:
Preceptorship for Social Care Focus Group – Tuesday 9 August 2022
Preceptorship for Primary Care Focus Group – Friday 8 July 2022
National Preceptorship Second Stakeholder Engagement Event – 13 June 2022
National Preceptorship Quality Mark Stakeholder Engagement Event – 29 November 2022
The presentation from the event can be accessed here
Contact us
For general enquiries about the project please contact the project team
Project Team (General)
Interim Quality Mark Team
For specific enquiries about the project please contact our national leads
Desiree Cox (Programme Lead)
Jane Wray (Senior Clinical Lead)
You can also contact our Regional Leads
Melvina Stober (South West England)
Tania Topp (South East England)
Desiree Cox (London)
Debbie Cubitt (East of England)
Jenny Halse (Midlands)
Eileen Aylott (North East and Yorkshire)
Rachelle Alty (North West England)
News and articles
Preceptorship: Nurses gaining protected time a ‘thorny issue’ – Nursing Times
21 March 2023
‘Ambitious’ preceptorship plan for England progresses at pace – Nursing Times
16 March 2023
Letter from Ruth May’s office: Retention of nursing and midwifery colleagues’ letter
11 July 2022
New nursing framework ‘invigorating’ preceptorship in England – Nursing Times
14 November 2022
Nurse preceptorship review highlights ‘benefits and barriers’ – Nursing Times
8 April 2022
‘Ambitious’ preceptorship plan for England progresses at pace – Nursing Times
16 March 2022
‘Good preceptorship positively impacts staff recruitment and retention’ – Nursing Times
2 February 2022
Social media
Tweet us
Tweet Desiree Cox (Programme Lead)
Tweet Dr Jane Wray (Clinical Lead)
Please remember to use the hashtag #NationalPreceptorship – this will help us and others who are interested in the project to stay connected to what’s happening.