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<p>The changes to healthcare education funding from August 2017 means that we can
move away from centrally imposed controls on numbers of nurses being trained and financial
limitations, enabling universities to increase nurse training places by the end of
the parliament, 2020.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As now, ensuring that all students
have access to high quality placements and receive an outstanding placement experience
is a key priority.</p><p> </p><p>Having a stable placement commissioning system is
important for workforce supply and for Higher Education Institutes; therefore Health
Education England (HEE) will retain responsibility for commissioning the minimum number
of placements for 2017/18. Universities will be free to create additional places on
top of these in partnership with their local trusts and will have their HEE-funded
placements maintained at existing levels.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed
to monitoring data regarding, for example, application rates, diversity statistics
and workforce supply.</p><p> </p><p>The first part of the government response to the
consultation included a revised Economic Impact Assessment, page 16 sets out the Monitoring
and Evaluation plan, the link is:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changing-how-healthcare-education-is-funded%20%20%20"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changing-how-healthcare-education-is-funded
</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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