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1701292

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many training places for district nurses her Department plans to make available in September 2025.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol South
	tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
	uin	22047
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Workforce, published on 30 June 2023, sets out an ambition to increase the number of district nursing training places to 842 in 2025.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 19/04/2024 07:34:01 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1691701

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many training places for nursing students there were in England in the 2023-24 financial year; and how many places there will be in the (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	15713
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>Since 2017, universities have set the number of available nursing training places based on market demand. The Department does not set figures for the number of places. Data published by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service shows that the number of accepted applicants to undergraduate nursing courses in England for 2023 was 20,790.</p><p>The NHS Long term Workforce Plan published in June 2023 outlines the nursing training intakes which underpin the plans ambitions across academic rather than financial years, and NHS England will work with the university sector to help achieve this. Across all nursing training intakes, including undergraduate, postgraduate and apprenticeships, these are 32,124 in 2025 academic year, and 33,981 in 2026 academic year.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 05/03/2024 17:13:06 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 20740 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1690167

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the underlying cause of the fall in each of the past three years in applications to university nursing courses, as reported by the Financial Times on 15 February, and what action they are taking to reverse the trend.
	tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
	uin	HL2512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>The drop in nursing applicants follows unprecedented demand for healthcare courses during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the number of applicants continues to outstrip the places on offer. Nursing training places are competitive, and lead to an attractive and important career in the National Health Service.</p><p>We are working closely with NHS England, universities and the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service to ensure everyone who wants to pursue a rewarding healthcare career in nursing has the support and opportunities to do so.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 27/02/2024 17:15:48 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1676396

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of full time equivalent general nurses become full time equivalent specialist nurses after accreditation.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Sir George Howarth
	uin	5790
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2023 answer text <p>The information on the number and proportion of nurses who become specialist nurses after accreditation is not held centrally. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) sets the standards for education for the nursing profession. There is though no regulator required post registration educational preparation for most specialist nursing roles. An employer would be responsible for creating the number of specialist nursing posts they require, based on population need. It would be expected that an organisation would develop registered nurses into specialist roles, with support from regional funding. This funding enables the development of, for example, advanced practitioners and nurse prescribers.</p><p>The NMC do publish data on registered Specialist Community Public Health Practitioners who hold specific recordable qualifications. This will not include all postgraduate training and nurses may be employed in a range of settings inside and outside of the English National Health Service. The data is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nmc.org.uk/about-us/reports-and-accounts/registration-statistics/" target="_blank">https://www.nmc.org.uk/about-us/reports-and-accounts/registration-statistics/</a></p><p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan set out that the NHS would focus on expanding the number of clinicians, including nurses, who train to take up enhanced and advanced roles, and work as part of multidisciplinary teams that have the right skills to meet the changing needs of patients. Supporting clinicians to train as enhanced and advanced practitioners will also help to retain staff by offering a valuable career progression opportunity.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan sets the ambition of training at least 3,000 advanced practitioners in 2023/24 and 2024/25, and increasing the number in training further to 5,000 a year by 2028/29. By 2031/32, we expect that more than 6,300 clinicians will start training to become advanced practitioners each year.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 5791 question first answered 15/12/2023 13:32:08 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

1676397

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the necessary proportion of full time equivalent general nurses who become full time equivalent specialist nurses after accreditation to meet NHS workforce need.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Sir George Howarth
	uin	5791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2023 answer text <p>The information on the number and proportion of nurses who become specialist nurses after accreditation is not held centrally. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) sets the standards for education for the nursing profession. There is though no regulator required post registration educational preparation for most specialist nursing roles. An employer would be responsible for creating the number of specialist nursing posts they require, based on population need. It would be expected that an organisation would develop registered nurses into specialist roles, with support from regional funding. This funding enables the development of, for example, advanced practitioners and nurse prescribers.</p><p>The NMC do publish data on registered Specialist Community Public Health Practitioners who hold specific recordable qualifications. This will not include all postgraduate training and nurses may be employed in a range of settings inside and outside of the English National Health Service. The data is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nmc.org.uk/about-us/reports-and-accounts/registration-statistics/" target="_blank">https://www.nmc.org.uk/about-us/reports-and-accounts/registration-statistics/</a></p><p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan set out that the NHS would focus on expanding the number of clinicians, including nurses, who train to take up enhanced and advanced roles, and work as part of multidisciplinary teams that have the right skills to meet the changing needs of patients. Supporting clinicians to train as enhanced and advanced practitioners will also help to retain staff by offering a valuable career progression opportunity.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan sets the ambition of training at least 3,000 advanced practitioners in 2023/24 and 2024/25, and increasing the number in training further to 5,000 a year by 2028/29. By 2031/32, we expect that more than 6,300 clinicians will start training to become advanced practitioners each year.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 5790 question first answered 15/12/2023 13:32:08 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

1657262

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training the NHS provides to nursing staff on (a) accountability and (b) reporting (i) suspicious activities and (ii) concerns.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196897
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2023 answer text <p>All registered nurses must uphold the Code of Practice set by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). The NMC can act if those on their register fail to uphold the Code. <br> <br> All National Health Service organisations and others providing NHS healthcare services in primary and secondary care in England are required to adopt the national Freedom to Speak Up policy as a minimum standard to help normalise speaking up for the benefit of patients and workers, including nursing staff. Its aim is to ensure all matters raised are captured and considered appropriately and the policy should be clear and regularly communicated to support learning and improvement. It is the individual employer’s responsibility to ensure that all mandatory training is completed by employees.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 08/09/2023 13:20:20 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1650028

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, published on 3 July 2023, for what reason he plans to reduce the number of trainee children's nurses.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	192368
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>NHS England’s initial assessment is that there is currently a sufficient number of training places to meet demand for children’s nursing, but this will be kept under review. The modelling within this Plan will be independently verified and further information will be provided in due course.</p><p>The model will be kept up to date, aligning service, finance and workforce planning much more closely together in future years. As programme teams collate more data, the impact of integrated care systems feeds through and as our actions start to be delivered, we can more precisely predict workforce demand.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/07/2023 13:45:58 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1650059

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of the restoration of the nurse’s bursary.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	Damien Moore
	uin	192426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company provides the primary funding support package for students in further education. Student loan repayments are unlike commercial loans, with built-in protections, including repayments linked to income and not based on interest rates or the amount borrowed, and with outstanding loan amounts written off after 30 years. Student loans are subsidised by the taxpayer, this is a conscious investment in the skills and people of this country.</p><p>In addition to this, eligible nursing students have access to supplementary funding support via the NHS Learning Support Fund, which offers a non-repayable grant of £5,000 per academic year plus additional grants and supports depending on their circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/07/2023 13:48:04 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1646675

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made how many student nurses will be unable to access the expanded free hours offer in 2024/25.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	190837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2023 answer text <p>The department does not hold the data on how many student nurses will be unable to access the expanded free hours offer in 2024/25.</p><p>In the Spring Budget 2023, the government announced a number of transformative reforms to childcare for parents, children, and the economy. By 2027/28, the government will expect to be spending in excess of £8 billion every year on free hours and early education, helping working families with their childcare costs. This represents the single biggest investment in childcare in England ever.</p><p>The announcement included the expansion of the 30 hours free childcare offer, through which eligible working parents in England will be able to access 30 hours of free childcare per week for 38 weeks per year from when their child is 9 months old to when they start school. The key objective of this measure is to support parental participation in the labour market, which is why the offer is conditional on work.</p><p>All students who work in addition to their studies and earn the equivalent of at least 16 hours a week at National Minimum/Living Wage, and under £100,000 adjusted net income per year, will be eligible for this offer. If they are unable to meet this threshold, they will remain eligible for the universal 15 hours of free early education which is available to all three and four-year-olds, regardless of family circumstances.</p><p>The government is not currently planning to extend the income criteria for 30 hours free childcare. We recognise the value of parents continuing in education and provide a range of support for students in further or higher education to support them with childcare.</p><p>Support available to full-time students with dependent children includes the Childcare Grant and Parents’ Learning Allowance. Entitlement to these grants is based on a student’s household income.</p><p>For additional financial support, since September 2020, all eligible full-time nursing, midwifery, paramedic, and other allied health profession students have been able to receive a non-repayable training grant through the NHS Learning Support Fund of £5,000 per academic year. Eligible full-time students with child dependants can also access a further £2,000 per academic year through the Learning and Support Fund. Eligible students studying part-time receive a pro-rated amount of support depending on their intensity of study compared to a full-time course.</p><p>Further information on the childcare offers available to parents is available at: <a href="https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 27/06/2023 12:40:10 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1643362

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of development and training needs in the nursing workforce.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	188718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government has commissioned NHS England to develop a long-term workforce plan for the next 15 years, which will look at the mix and number of staff required and will set out the actions and reforms needed across the National Health Service, including nurses.</p><p>The Government continues to support career progression by investing in continued professional development to help clinical staff advance their careers, develop new clinical skills to enhance the care they are able to provide to patients, obtain advanced practice qualifications and move more easily between different roles in different parts of the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>Programmes such as apprenticeships and blended learning offer new routes into healthcare professions, including nursing. Health Education England, now part of NHS England, recently published the Educator Workforce Strategy, setting out actions that will lead to sufficient capacity and quality of educators to allow the growth in healthcare workforce that is needed to deliver care now and in the future.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 188720 question first answered 19/06/2023 15:20:01 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra