NHS: Workforce Implementation Plan

Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen Excerpts

Tuesday 5th February 2019 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Manzoor]

My Lords, as I have said, we have already put in place significant actions to boost the supply of nurses, ranging from training more nurses to offering new routes into the profession and enhancing reward and pay packages to make nursing more attractive, improve retention and encourage those who have left to return to nursing. There are almost 13,400 more nurses on our wards since 2010. However, we are certainly not complacent.

[Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen (Con)]

My Lords, does my noble friend agree that it is going to be an advantage that all newly qualified nurses and midwives are going to be guaranteed a place in a hospital for the first five years, and are going to be guaranteed a place in the region where they qualified?

[A noble Lord]

Just say yes.