We know that healthcare is really important for everybody - it's very high on the agenda. But we've got so many opportunities to become a practitioner in healthcare through an apprenticeship option and we've been very successful in receiving money from the Office for Students to get some new degree apprenticeships developed, so for example in Midwifery, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy - and more recently we've gone towards the Public Health Practitioner as well.
Tracey Nock, Wider Workforce Manager, Derbyshire Community Health Services (DCHS):
We've got over 350 roles in the NHS so there is usually a job for everyone out there. So it's a benefit to us to be able to say come on in; see what we've got and grow our own. We will give them the confidence to apply, we will support them along the way and by the end of it we will be really proud and celebrate their achievement.
I'm a registered nursing associate and I've completed my apprenticeship course nearly a year ago through Derby University. So you get experience throughout the community and hospitals and then obviously earning while you're learning.
We know that more people need to be taking better care of themselves in their everyday lives rather than depending on going into hospitals, so making sure that public health is at the front of everybody's agenda is really important.