Midwives: Training

(asked on 5th January 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department has taken to help ensure that there are sufficient clinical placements of the correct standard for the planned increase in student midwife numbers.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 15th January 2024

NHS England works with placements providers in all regions to ensure sufficient and high-quality practice-based learning. Over recent years, NHS England, formerly Health Education England, has invested £55 million to increase clinical placement capacity. This is in addition to the provision of placement tariff to support placement providers for nursing, midwifery and allied health professional students.

As set out in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, we aim to expand the number of midwifery training places from 3,778 to 4,269 by 2028. To support this expansion, NHS England will continue to work with stakeholders to ensure placement providers know what core standards they need to meet, supported by national co-design of placements, to provide a strategic view of capacity and support joined up working between the National Health Service and the education sector to ensure the correct standard of training, in the correct volumes and locations.

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