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 introducing leadership training for advanced practitioners.

No assessment has been made. However, all National Health Service staff have access to the NHS Leadership Academy - NHS England’s tool for developing clinical leadership.

In addition, ‘Leadership, management, and organisation’ is named as one of the thirteen core capabilities in Health Education England’s ‘Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice’, which sets the standard of the skills, knowledge, and behaviours expected of advanced practitioners. As such, there is an expectation that those undertaking an advanced practitioner role demonstrate adequate leadership skills within their practice.