Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of automatic death-in-service insurance for people on unpaid placements in NHS hospitals.
We are immensely grateful for the hard work of all our healthcare students throughout this pandemic. Ministers have made it clear that for the purposes of the NHS & Social Care Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme students on placement will be treated in the same way as other staff working on the frontline.