Health Professions: Training

(asked on 4th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made on training 10,000 more healthcare students by 2020, and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 7th March 2019

The Government reformed the education funding system for pre-registration nursing, midwifery and allied health profession students by removing the artificial cap which the National Health Service bursary imposed on the system; enabling universities to train additional healthcare students.

To enable universities to train up to 10,000 more healthcare students, the Department has provided additional funding for clinical placements so that up to 25% more healthcare students can enter training.

The latest data from the University and College Admissions Service (UCAS) shows that applications for full-time undergraduate nursing and midwifery courses has increased by 4.5% when compared to the equivalent point in 2018. The Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Education will continue to work jointly, and with their health and education partners to assess student demand and university capacity for these healthcare courses. The UCAS end-of-cycle recruitment data will be published in December 2019.

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