Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Whether he has plans for the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework to be incorporated in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.

The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (LTWP) sets out plans to train, retain and reform the National Health Service workforce to meet the demands facing the NHS over the next 15 years.

We will continue to build on what we know works, including the information outlined in the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework, for example by ensuring staff can work flexibly, have access to integrated occupational health and wellbeing support, and work in a team that is well-led.

In addition, to supplement local employer investment, the LTWP sets out NHS England’s commitment to continue national continuing professional development funding for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. The operation of this scheme will be kept under review, to ensure subsequent funding is in line with workforce growth and inflation, well targeted and achieving the desired outcomes.