Health Professions: North East
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase training placements for (a) nurses and (b) allied health professionals in the North East.
Answered by Karin Smyth
Clinical practice placements are mandatory for healthcare education and training, in order to support and embed the skills, values, and behaviours for the future National Health Service workforce. Financial support is currently available to placement providers in the form of a placement tariff for nurses and allied health professionals.
As part of our 10-Yeah Health Plan, we have committed to reforming the clinical placement tariff system to ensure it drives clinical placement activity in the right professions and settings.
The Professional Strategy for Nursing and Midwifery, being developed by the Chief Nursing Officer for England, will build on this to ensure that every nursing student spends sufficient time across a range of clinical settings, and will include a requirement for all students to have a high-quality experience in neighbourhood and community settings and social care.
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