Nurses: Training

(asked on 20th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government which universities provide undergraduate courses for the training of nurses for people with learning disabilities; and how many places are provided each year on each of those courses.


Answered by
Earl Howe Portrait
Earl Howe
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 3rd February 2015

Health Education England (HEE) does not hold information around which universities provide learning disability courses at a national level. Learning disability courses are commissioned locally by the 13 Local Education Training Boards (LETBs) through universities within their geographical area. At a national level HEE only holds total commissions for learning disabilities nursing.

In December 2014, HEE published its Workforce Plan for England which includes its planned Education & Training Commissions for 2015-16.

Within learning disabilities nursing they will increase commissions from 653 in 2014-15 to 664 in 2015-16. This represents an increase of 1.7%.

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