Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital staff in each hospital trust have undergone specific dementia awareness training.
The Government’s 2014-15 Mandate to Health Education England, published on 1 May 2014, states that a further 250,000 National Health Service staff will receive Tier 1 dementia awareness training by March 2015, in addition to the 100,000 NHS staff who had received Tier 1 training by March 2014. At 30 September 2014, 377,886 NHS staff had undertaken the Tier 1 training.