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HLSP has been appointed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council to ensure that nursing and midwifery education meets a consistently high standard across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This page contains all the documentation and guidelines required by Programme Providers.

The documents below can be downloaded by clicking on the listed titles:

Approval flowchart: how the programme approval/re-approval process works
Approval request form: download and complete this form if you wish to request a programme approval
Approval agenda guidelines: a model agenda for programme approval events
Agenda for placement visits: a model agenda for practice placement visits during approval events
Protocol for signing off conditions: the process that will be followed to ensure that all conditions set have been satisfactorily met
Complaints procedure: what to do if you have a complaint
Appeals procedure: how to appeal a decision made by our reviewers
Monitoring evaluation form: download and complete this form to let us know what you think about our contribution to the monitoring process
Monitoring flowchart: how the programme monitoring process works
Monitoring review Action Plan: a model action plan to be used where requirements are unmet following the monitoring review process.
HLSP Quality Assurance handbook: detailed process notes for reviewers and information for Programme Providers
FAQs: a list of frequently asked questions from Programme Providers

All our processes are open and transparent, with all documentation in the public domain. If you would like to view documents relevant to Reviewers, including the approval process and the Reviewer code of conduct, please click here.

The documents on this site are published in Portable Document Format (PDF) and Microsoft Word. You'll need to have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read PDF files. Click here› to get a free download version.