Community Nurses: Training
(asked on 5th June 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the pause in procurement of district nursing training courses in September 2023 on (a) the number of district nursing training places and (b) patient safety in the community.
This question was answered on 13th June 2023
In order to build and sustain the district nursing workforce, NHS England has increased the number of district nurse places available for 2023/24. NHS England does not anticipate a disruption to education provision whilst it undertakes its procurement exercise to secure programmes ready for September 2024 starts.