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<p>The education funding reforms, which came into force in 2017, unlocked the cap
which constrained the number of pre-registration nursing, midwifery and allied health
profession training places allowing more students to gain access to nurse degree training
courses.</p><p> </p><p>Health Education Institutes (HEIs) are autonomous private institutions
and are responsible for setting the number of training places they offer. It is for
HEIs to work as part of their local health economy to secure training places.</p><p>The
Department does not hold information on the level of pre-registration undergraduate
nursing places filled at individual HEIs, compared with the number of places they
made available in the given period.</p><p>The Office for Students publishes annual
data on the number of entrants onto pre-registration nursing undergraduate nursing
courses broken down by individual HEIs. Higher Education Students Early Statistics
have published the 2018/19 data, which is available at the following link:</p><p>
</p><p><a href="https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/data-and-analysis/data-collection/get-the-heses-and-heifes-data/"
target="_blank">https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/data-and-analysis/data-collection/get-the-heses-and-heifes-data/</a></p><p>
</p><p>The Department monitors student recruitment at a national level. The latest
published data from the University and Colleges Admissions Service from February 2019
shows that there has been a 4.5% increase in applicants to nursing or midwifery courses
at English universities when compared to this time last year in 2018. However, we
know that there is further work to do with the education and healthcare sector to
ensure that students continue to apply for these places.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long
Term Plan set out the next step in our mission to make the National Health Service
a world class employer and deliver the nursing workforce the NHS needs. To deliver
on these commitments the NHS has published on 3 June 2019 an interim People Plan that
sets out the action we will take now and over the long term to meet the challenges
of nursing supply, including nursing undergraduate supply.</p><p>We recognise, however,
that there is more to do which is why the NHS will publish a final People Plan soon
after the conclusion of the Spending Review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
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