Learning Disability: Nurses
(asked on 6th June 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government which universities in England and Wales provide undergraduate training places for learning disability nurses; and how many undergraduate training places for learning disability nurses will be available in each of those universities in each of the next three academic years.
The Office for Students (OfS) published data on the names of the universities in England which offered pre-registration undergraduate learning disability nursing courses in 2018 /19. These universities are shown in the following table:
Coventry University | University of Greenwich | University of Chester |
Edge Hill University | University of Hertfordshire | The University of Cumbria |
Kingston University | University of Keele | De Montfort University |
Teesside University | University of Northampton | University of Northumbria at Newcastle |
The University of East Anglia | University of the West of England, Bristol | University of Salford |
The University of Huddersfield | University of Wolverhampton | Sheffield Hallam University |
The University of Hull | Birmingham City University | University of Sunderland |
Source: Published OfS Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey 2018/19
Healthcare education, training and recruitment in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland is a matter for the devolved governments in each nation, and the Department does not hold information on this.
The Department does not hold information on the numbers of training places for undergraduate learning disability nursing that are expected to be available at universities in future years.
Universities are autonomous private institutions and are responsible for setting the number of training places they offer. It is for universities to work as part of their local health economy to secure training places.
In August 2017, the Government changed the funding system for pre-registration undergraduate nurse training. The funding reforms unlocked the cap which constrained the number of pre-registration nursing, midwifery and allied health profession training places, meaning that we have moved away from centrally imposed number controls and financial limitations, creating a sustainable model for universities and the healthcare workforce supply.
In support of the reforms, we announced additional clinical placement funding to make available 5,000 more nurse training places each year.