Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what training is provided to NHS clinicians on diagnosing childhood stroke.

The General Medical Council (GMC) regulates all stages of doctors' training and professional development in the United Kingdom. It also sets the standards and outcomes that all medical students must meet if they are to graduate and work as a doctor in the UK.

It is the responsibility of the royal colleges, for example the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Physicians, for developing postgraduate speciality training curricula for doctors. They also set and maintain standards of speciality training and assessment.

The Mandate that the Department has with Health Education England (HEE) requires HEE to continue to lead on the transformation of the children and young peoples’ healthcare workforce to ensure it is fit to serve the needs of children and young people, with a focus on long-term sustainability and integration across primary and secondary care settings. HEE works with organisations such as the GMC and the Royal Colleges to seek to ensure training meets the needs of patients.