Health Professions: Recruitment
(asked on 5th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have for the recruitment of nurses and midwives in the next three years.
This question was answered on 18th December 2017
To meet the growing need to increase the future supply of registered nurses, additional clinical placement funding was announced by the Department in August and October 2017. This enables around 5,000 more nursing students to enter training each year to 2020-21, representing a 25% increase compared to 2016-17.