Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of training time for the new nursing associate role is allocated to each specialism.

There are currently 2,000 Nursing Associates in training within 35 Health Education England Pilots, due to complete and become qualified in 2019. Nursing Associates spend 675 hours on placement at locations external to their employed place of work, where they gain a wide range of experience caring for people at all stages of life, across nursing fields and in other care settings, including in hospital, in the community and in a person’s home.

Nursing Associates are an England only role. National Health Service staffing in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales is a matter for each of the devolved administrations.