Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the letter from the chief executive of the Queen's Institute of Community Nursing to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care that raised concerns about the safety, quality and oversight of services.

Community nurses will be a vital part of our ambitions to shift more care from hospital to the community.

Understanding current community nursing capacity and planning and monitoring future community nursing capacity as well as addressing variation across England is central to achieving our 10-Year Health Plan. As part of this, the Government is committed to publishing a 10 Year Workforce Plan to set out action to create a workforce ready to deliver the transformed service set out in the 10-Year Health Plan.