Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Queen’s Nursing Institute report entitled Workforce Standards for the District Nursing Service, published in February 2022, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of that publication; whether his Department or NHS England has held any discussions with relevant stakeholders about that document and implementing its recommendations, since its publication; and if he will make a statement.

We have had no specific discussions or made such an assessment.