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439404

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure that records of the training history of the nurses convicted at Nursing and Midwifery Council hearings are kept on the same basis as such data in such cases by the General Medical Council.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	20584
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the independent regulator of nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom. The NMC is responsible for delivery of its statutory functions including maintaining a register of all nurses and midwives eligible to work in the UK and for pursuing fitness to practise investigations against its registrants in the interests of public protection.</p><p> </p><p>On each of the NMC and General Medical Council (GMC) websites there is a facility to search the professional registers and to check the registration status of a registrant. <del class="ministerial">Where an NMC registrant has been struck-off the register, their record is removed from the register and they would not be found on a register search. However, the NMC does publish information about fitness to practise (FtP) allegations, hearings, outcomes and sanctions elsewhere on its website in accordance with its FtP publication and disclosure policy. Where a GMC registrant is erased from the medical register, their record remains and could be found in a register search with details of the FtP sanction. </del><ins class="ministerial">Both of these regulators maintain public records about individuals who have been struck off or erased from their professional registers and these records are available through their respective websites.</ins></p><p>It is a matter for the regulators themselves to determine how they manage their publication and disclosure policy in relation to fitness to practice, within the legislative frameworks in which they operate.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 11/01/2016 17:09:48 question first ministerially corrected 02/02/2016 11:46:58 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer previous answer version 38218 answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

443007

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS nurses were employed in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 2005.
	tabling member constituency	Jarrow
	tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
	uin	21418
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2016 answer text <p>The number of hospital and community health services nurses employed in the National Health Service for South Tyneside and the North East region in each year since 2005 is in the attached table. The figures are taken from the NHS annual workforce statistics published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.</p><br /><p>Figures are only available for recognised NHS geography and therefore no information has been provided for Jarrow constituency.</p><br /><p>The provision of health services in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter so total figures are for England only.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 15/01/2016 13:41:51 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer attachment 1 file name PQ21418 table.xlsx title Nurses employed in NHS for South Tyneside and NE
	tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

452030

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses were brought before a fitness to practise panel for lack of competence, communication issues between 2013 and 2015; and how many such nurses (a) were and (b) were not suspended.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	26746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not held by the Department. As an independent body the Nursing and Midwifery Council is responsible for operational matters concerning the discharge of its statutory duties including fitness-to-practise investigations in respect of its registrants.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 22/02/2016 16:53:44 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

485662

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses (a) left the profession and (b) qualified in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	32460
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>This information can be found for each of the last four years on the Health and Social Care Information Centre website. It is available from the links below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB19847/nhs-work-stat-nov-2015-turn-tab.xls" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB19847/nhs-work-stat-nov-2015-turn-tab.xls</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB16870/nhs-work-stat-nov-2014-turn-tab.xls" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB16870/nhs-work-stat-nov-2014-turn-tab.xls</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB13554/nhs-work-stat-nov-2013-turn-tab.xls" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB13554/nhs-work-stat-nov-2013-turn-tab.xls</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB10298/mont-hchs-work-stat-eng-nov-2012-turn-tab.xlsx" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB10298/mont-hchs-work-stat-eng-nov-2012-turn-tab.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold the information on the number of nurses who qualified in the last five years. The Nursing and Midwifery Council is the body that nurses apply to for professional registration after graduation, and may hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 11/04/2016 16:43:43 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

506547

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to encourage more people to become practice nurses.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	33007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>In October 2015 Health Education England (HEE) published the first ever General Practice Nursing Service Education and Career Framework and accompanying HEE Education Commissioning Specification. This framework is founded on the need to develop the capacity and capability of general practice nurses.</p><p>Health Careers, part of HEE, also actively promotes all healthcare careers, including practice nursing. Information about a career in practice nursing is available through its website, literature and helpline. This includes information about the benefits of being a practice nurse, the education and training needed and real-life stories from current practice nurses.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 18/04/2016 10:58:02 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

510090

	registered interest
	date	11/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of additional nurses who will be required in the health and care sectors over the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	33359
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2016 answer text <p>Health Education England (HEE) is responsible for workforce planning in the National Health Service and their recently published <em>HEE commissioning and investment plan</em> <em>16/17</em> forecasts an additional supply of 40,000 nurses by 2020. Moving new nursing students on to the student loans system in August 2017 will allow universities to offer up to a further 10,000 nursing, midwifery and allied health degree places by 2020/21.</p><p>The <em>HEE commissioning and investment plan</em> <em>16/17</em> forecasts demands for additional nurses and midwives in the health and care sector in the next five years will rise by around 16,800.</p><p>The Department does not collect data on the numbers of applicants who were not successful in gaining a nurse training place.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 33356 33358 question first answered 14/04/2016 09:21:18 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

518260

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential contribution of public health nursing to (a) improving the health of the population and preventing acute hospital admissions and (b) delivering the Government's commitment to seven-day NHS services.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	36917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>Improving population health is the responsibility of every nurse and they have a role in working with individuals, communities and/or the population to prevent illness, protect health and promote wellbeing. The National Health Service Five Year Forward View (FYFV) sets out the need to close the health and wellbeing gap, radically upgrade prevention as part of a drive to reduce acute hospital admissions, and deliver seven-day hospital services for patients with urgent or emergency care needs. The new framework for nurses, midwives and care staff in England, <em>Leading Change, Adding Value</em>, scheduled for publication later this month, sets out how these professionals will support delivery of the FYFV. There are 10 commitments in the framework, of which three specifically relate to population health and population health and prevention.</p><p> </p><p>To support all health care professionals including nurses to provide evidence based preventative interventions and measure their impact, Public Health England will be launching a resource called <em>All Our Health </em>later this month.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 12/05/2016 08:31:43 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

524978

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the effect on the role of chief nursing officer will be of the decision to abolish the nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals policy unit.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	40630
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>As part of the DH 2020 plan, the Department is making significant changes to the way it works. The Department’s approach is to flexibly access professional advice from a wide range of sources, including arm’s length bodies, regulators and professional bodies, rather than from a fixed standing team of internal advisers.</p><p> </p><p>These changes do not affect the role of the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), who as CNO of the Department already advises, and will continue to advise all Ministers and the Department on the range of nursing issues.</p><p> </p><p>All staff in the Department, including staff in the current nursing, midwifery and allied health professions policy unit are eligible to apply for new roles in the organisation or to apply for a voluntary early severance scheme.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 40537 40631 question first answered 27/06/2016 13:57:57 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

528076

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure nurses are consulted on his Department's future policies after the proposed closure of the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions policy unit in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	41059
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department leads the health and care system in England, working closely with a range of organisations on whose expertise it draws, including the nursing and midwifery expertise in NHS England and Public Health England. The Department’s approach to ensuring that nurses are consulted about future policies is to flexibly access professional advice from a wide range of sources, including arms-length bodies, regulators, stakeholders and professional bodies.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s policy teams will establish new networks and relationships with stakeholders and partners and collaborate with the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) to ensure systems are in place to secure advice when developing evidence based policy. These changes do not affect the role of the CNO, who as CNO of the Department already advises, and will continue to advise all Ministers and the Department on the range of nursing and midwifery issues.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is changing the way it works to deliver its essential work for the Government while achieving efficiency savings. All of the changes we are making through the resulting DH2020 programme are being done transparently and communicated to staff.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 41066 41067 question first answered 04/07/2016 14:06:04 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

528085

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanisms he plans to put in place to ensure ministers receive impartial nursing advice after the proposed closure of the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions policy unit in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	41066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department leads the health and care system in England, working closely with a range of organisations on whose expertise it draws, including the nursing and midwifery expertise in NHS England and Public Health England. The Department’s approach to ensuring that nurses are consulted about future policies is to flexibly access professional advice from a wide range of sources, including arms-length bodies, regulators, stakeholders and professional bodies.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s policy teams will establish new networks and relationships with stakeholders and partners and collaborate with the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) to ensure systems are in place to secure advice when developing evidence based policy. These changes do not affect the role of the CNO, who as CNO of the Department already advises, and will continue to advise all Ministers and the Department on the range of nursing and midwifery issues.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is changing the way it works to deliver its essential work for the Government while achieving efficiency savings. All of the changes we are making through the resulting DH2020 programme are being done transparently and communicated to staff.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 41059 41067 question first answered 04/07/2016 14:06:04 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston