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<p>The Department and Health Education England (HEE) are undertaking work to ensure
that the National Health Service has the learning disability nurses required to deliver
high quality care. This includes ensuring nurses in other fields have opportunities
within their competency frameworks to develop their skills further in order to work
in learning disability nursing. The Government has offered pre-registration postgraduate
learning disability nursing students, who commenced their loan-funded studies in the
2018/19 academic year, a £10,000 incentive payment once they take up employment in
the NHS in that field.</p><p>In addition, HEE continues to work with stakeholders
across the health and social care sector to raise the profile of learning disability
nursing, including working with the university sector to recruit more students onto
courses and in partnership with the University and Colleges Admissions Service to
run a recruitment campaign during university clearing.</p><p>We recognise that care
staff want more specialist training to help them to support the increasingly complex
needs of people receiving care and support. We will introduce new specialist ‘cluster
modules’ into the Care Certificate, including the development of a new module on learning
disability in 2019/20.</p><p> </p>
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