Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that health and care providers prioritise training on how to support people who are dying; and what steps he is taking to ensure that education and training providers deliver this training to a high standard.

Individual providers are responsible for ensuring that staff are appropriately trained and competent for their role. NHS England has published statutory guidance to support commissioners with implementation of the Health and Care Act 2022, which references education and training to support high quality palliative and end of life care. Health Education England provides training through the ‘End of life care for all’ e-learning programme and is developing a end of life care core skills education and training framework with Skills for Health and Skills for Care.