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520804

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 9 May 2016 to Question 36629, on health professions: training, if he will make available a copy of the advice he received from leading nursing professionals.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	37840
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government does not plan to change the funding arrangements for medical and dental students who are already on the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills student support system for the first four years of their degrees.</p><p> </p><p>A preliminary Equality Analysis was published alongside the public consultation document on the 7 April 2016. This document provides the assessment of the potential effect of the replacement of National Health Service bursaries by student loans for all the protected characteristics of the Public Sector Equality Duty (Section 149 of the Equality Act 2010).</p><p> </p><p>The Equality Analysis and the government consultation can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changing-how-healthcare-education-is-funded" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changing-how-healthcare-education-is-funded</a></p><p> </p><p>As with all policy development, to inform decision-making, Ministers were briefed internally by relevant Departmental officials, including nursing profession leads.</p><p> </p><p>The Department received joint correspondence from the Council of Deans of Health and Universities UK about a number of issues relating to healthcare education funding in England. A copy of the letter is attached.</p><p> </p><p>The Department received a number of representations from organisations, including Royal Colleges, professional bodies and representatives of universities, about a number of issues relating to healthcare student education funding in England including a potential move from the current system of funding to student loans.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 37815 37841 37882 question first answered 26/05/2016 16:06:26 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer attachment 1 file name PQ37815 37840 37841 37882 Council of Deans of Health and Universities UK Joint Statement.pdf title Council of Deans of Health and Universities UK
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

732327

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations he has received on the number of applications to study nursing at degree level in the 2017-18 academic year.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	884
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>A search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database has identified 34 items of correspondence received since 1 January 2017 about the number of applications to study nursing at degree level in the 2017-18 academic year. This figure represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 03/07/2017 16:35:39 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

522138

	registered interest
	date	26/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding has been allocated by Health Education England for clinical placements for the new nurse training places his Department plans to deliver by the end of the Parliament.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	38721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>Following the reforms to higher education healthcare funding, the Government, through Health Education England, will retain the responsibility for commissioning and funding the minimum numbers of clinical placements required to produce sufficient healthcare graduates. The Government is consulting on the widest possible funding solutions to ensure there is sufficient placement capacity across the system, in order to match the expanded number of training places created by the reforms.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 06/06/2016 13:55:37 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

447908

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of nurse training places in each of the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	24269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2016 answer text <p>Health Education England (HEE) was established and has been mandated by the Government to provide national leadership on education, training and workforce development in the National Health Service. As one of the arm’s length bodies to help improve the quality of care delivered to patients, it ensures that the future workforce is available in the right numbers with the right skills, values and competencies to meet patient needs today and tomorrow.</p><p> </p><p>HEE operate an annual comprehensive planning process to ensure their investments meet the future needs of the population. This process determines the number of training places that will be commissioned by HEE in the following financial year. The planned commissions are published annually in both the HEE commissioning and investment plan and the HEE Workforce Plan for England.</p><p> </p><p>The 2016-17 commissioning and investment plan was published in December 2015 and includes the planned number of nurse training commissions for 2016-17. The plan can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/HEE%20commissioning%20and%20investment%20plan.pdf" target="_blank">https://hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/HEE%20commissioning%20and%20investment%20plan.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The HEE annual Workforce Plan for England 2016/17 is planned for publication by the end of February 2016.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 02/02/2016 15:55:34 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1122028

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	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, if he will publish the criteria used by Health Education England to determine the budget allocation for workforce development for registered nursing staff in the NHS in England.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	245835
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not allocate funding for continuous professional development (CPD) or workforce development for the National Health Service clinical workforce or registered nursing staff. Health Education England (HEE) contributes, based on local priorities, workforce development funding, including some which may used for CPD, to local NHS employers.</p><p>The following table below sets out funding since 2013 to the latest data available. Workforce development investment prior to 2013 was managed by individual strategic health authorities for which data is not available.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>190.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>205.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>205.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>104.3<sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>83.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>83.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p><sup>1</sup>The reduction in workforce development funding between 2015/16 and 2016/17 was transferred to spending on new nursing undergraduate courses under the previous undergraduate funding system resulting in around 3,000 extra nurses.</p><p>In addition, individual NHS employers have responsibility for supporting staff workforce development (a proportion of which may be used locally for some CPD) courses which are required to fulfil duties to work in their organisation and core employment requirements. Data on the level of workforce development and CPD investment made by individual NHS employers between 2010/11 and 2019/20 is not collected centrally. Therefore, information on the totality of workforce development or CPD funding or a breakdown by profession is not held centrally.</p><p>Following publication of the NHS Long Term Plan, HEE is currently finalising and introducing a new national methodology for allocating workforce development (a proportion of which may be used locally for some CPD) funding from 2019/20 onwards. Allocations of available workforce development (a proportion of which may be used locally for some CPD) funding provided by HEE to the NHS in England will be made using this formula once finalised.</p><p>Prior to 2019/20 Health Education England (HEE) did not use an allocation formula for its budget for workforce development funding (a proportion of which may be used locally for some CPD). Taking into account its overall allocation from the Department and the workforce priorities it is required to deliver as set in its annual mandate from Government, decisions on levels of workforce development (a proportion of which may be used locally for some CPD) investment made available via HEE were taken based on discussions with local employers via HEE regional offices. At a national level, HEE supported these discussions with guidance on how this funding should be used most effectively on proven activities and programmes across a range of professions.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 245833 245834 245836 245837 question first answered 02/05/2019 13:19:04 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1122027

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	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 much funding his Department has allocated to continuing professional development for registered nursing staff in the NHS in England in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	245834
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not allocate funding for continuous professional development (CPD) or workforce development for the National Health Service clinical workforce or registered nursing staff. Health Education England (HEE) contributes, based on local priorities, workforce development funding, including some which may used for CPD, to local NHS employers.</p><p>The following table below sets out funding since 2013 to the latest data available. Workforce development investment prior to 2013 was managed by individual strategic health authorities for which data is not available.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>190.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>205.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>205.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>104.3<sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>83.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>83.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p><sup>1</sup>The reduction in workforce development funding between 2015/16 and 2016/17 was transferred to spending on new nursing undergraduate courses under the previous undergraduate funding system resulting in around 3,000 extra nurses.</p><p>In addition, individual NHS employers have responsibility for supporting staff workforce development (a proportion of which may be used locally for some CPD) courses which are required to fulfil duties to work in their organisation and core employment requirements. Data on the level of workforce development and CPD investment made by individual NHS employers between 2010/11 and 2019/20 is not collected centrally. Therefore, information on the totality of workforce development or CPD funding or a breakdown by profession is not held centrally.</p><p>Following publication of the NHS Long Term Plan, HEE is currently finalising and introducing a new national methodology for allocating workforce development (a proportion of which may be used locally for some CPD) funding from 2019/20 onwards. Allocations of available workforce development (a proportion of which may be used locally for some CPD) funding provided by HEE to the NHS in England will be made using this formula once finalised.</p><p>Prior to 2019/20 Health Education England (HEE) did not use an allocation formula for its budget for workforce development funding (a proportion of which may be used locally for some CPD). Taking into account its overall allocation from the Department and the workforce priorities it is required to deliver as set in its annual mandate from Government, decisions on levels of workforce development (a proportion of which may be used locally for some CPD) investment made available via HEE were taken based on discussions with local employers via HEE regional offices. At a national level, HEE supported these discussions with guidance on how this funding should be used most effectively on proven activities and programmes across a range of professions.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 245833 245835 245836 245837 question first answered 02/05/2019 13:19:04 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1086745

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2019
	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 golden hello incentives have been made to nursing students; and how much in total has been spent on that scheme since it was announced in May 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	230827
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>In May 2018 Ministers announced a £10,000 incentive package for post graduate nursing students that start courses in 2018 and go on to National Health Service employment in learning disability, mental health or district nursing roles.</p><p> </p><p>Assuming that students go straight into employment, we would see payments starting to be made from June 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The final details of the scheme will be published by the Government in due course.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 13/03/2019 17:09:02 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders