Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many new nurses will be employed at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.

Healthcare providers are responsible for ensuring that they have the right level of staffing to provide high quality care. Health Education England (HEE) will work through its Local Education and Training Boards and others to ensure that there are sufficient nurses and other staff being trained to meet the needs of patients. The interim NHS People Plan, published on 3 June 2019, puts the workforce at the heart of the National Health Service and will ensure we have the staff needed to deliver high quality care. HEE will work with NHS England and NHS Improvement to understand the longer-term workforce implications of the NHS Long Term Plan. This will inform the final NHS People Plan, to be published in early 2020.