Nurses: Training
(asked on 1st February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate (a) his Department and (b) Health Education England has made of the potential costs of providing placements for additional nursing student numbers following the introduction of student loans.
Training commissions for the National Health Service are determined annually through Health Education England (HEE) workforce planning process. It is not possible to give estimates at this stage of students who will be funded from 2017 onwards, either on the bursary or loans system. HEE produce an annual Workforce Plan for England, we expect the 2016/17 plan to be published shortly. This will include details of the nursing, midwifery and allied health professions commissions for 2016/17.
In December 2015, HEE set out their proposed Education and Training Commissions for 2016/17 in their Commissioning and Investment Plan 2016/17 which is available at:
HM Treasury estimate that the Resource Accounting and Budgeting charge for full time tuition fee and maintenance loans, and part time fee loans, is between 20% and 25%.
The Department will shortly run a public consultation on how the reforms can be most successfully implemented. As part of this, an economic impact assessment and equality impact assessment will be published. The consultation and assessments will include the effect on the numbers of students in these professions undertaking postgraduate and post-registration qualifications.