NHS Protect
(asked on 12th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (a) how many accredited training sessions and (b) how much free paralegal advice NHS Protect has provided to staff throughout the NHS in each year since 2010-11; and how many staff in NHS Protect were employed to carry out those activities in each such year.
The information requested is in the table.
Year | Accredited Training Sessions1 | Training, Development and Delivery staff | Legal Advice provided2 | Legal Protect Unit staff |
2010/11 | 14 | 21 | 187 | 3 |
2011/12 | 10 | 19 | 147 | 3 |
2012/13 | 11 | 17 | 145 | 3 |
2013/14 | 14 | 19 | 102 | 3 |
2014/15 | 10 | 19 | 110 | 3 |
2015/16 | 11 | 18 | 112 | 3 |
Notes:
1 Courses are delivered to up to eight students within each programme.
2 The figures for legal advice relate to files that have been opened, and do not include queries that take only a short time to resolve.