Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information he holds on the number of Advanced Practitioners who have been trained for children’s nursing in the community since 2015.
Health Education England (HEE) collect national aggregate level information on the total number of Advanced Practitioners that they commission. This data is not collected to the level requested. In the period 2016/17 the number of Advanced Practitioners commissioned nationally by HEE was 1,000.
Individual trusts will also commission Advanced Practitioners courses which is not included in the HEE data.