Nurses: Recruitment

(asked on 24th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the nurse training framework and pay structure to attract sufficient numbers of people to enter the profession.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 2nd May 2019

In 2018 NHS England launched the ‘We are the NHS’ communication campaign which was delivered in two phases. The first phase aimed at improving the positive perception of and pride of working in the National Health Service to help recruit new student nurses into training, qualified nurses return to practice and retain more of the existing nursing workforce that the NHS already employs. The second phase was designed to focus on attracting new undergraduate students to apply for nurse degree training courses. Phase two ran throughout the period that the University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) was open to degree applications and ended on 15 January 2019.

Health Education England also ran an extensive health education careers website which sets out all the exciting roles that are available in the NHS including all nursing careers. This is available at the following link:

www.healthcareers.nhs.uk

It has also launched an interactive NHS careers finder tool which is available all those looking at identifying a career that would suit them in the NHS. This is available at the following link:

www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/career-tools

Following extensive consultation and stakeholder engagement the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has published a new Standards Framework for Nursing and Midwifery. The Standards Framework forms part of a wider suite of Future Nurse education standards for registered nurses which were published in May 2018. Education institutions must be approved against these standards to run any NMC approved programmes by September 2020.

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