. • Highlighted SWAP (Scottish Wider Access Programme) and how colleges support the NHS workforce through progression to undergraduate courses through SWAP with access to nursing, paramedic science and other courses. • Spoke on upskilling the current workforce to meet the demands of the NHS, upskilling Band 3 senior healthcare support workers to become Band 4 assistant practitioners. • Concluded by discussing how colleges could support NHS more effectively, including by removing barrier to increase articulation to Year 2 from HNC to reduce duplication of funding and shorten the learner journey. 2 Professor Susan Dawkes, Dean and Professor of Nursing and Cardiovascular Health, Edinburgh Napier University and Chair of the Council of Deans of Health Scotland. • Outlined the current workforce in the NHS and the shortfall of the recruitment targets the NHS is facing, and how universities can help address this through innovative programmes and partnership working with stakeholders for possible regional delivery of programmes, articulation, to maximise current and source new pipelines for recruitment and lifelong learning. • Spoke about the challenges facing universities with student recruitment in social care and how these challenges could be solved.