Tag: Lord MacKenzie of Culkein

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord MacKenzie of Culkein on 2015-12-01.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what research has been conducted into whether clinical teams, mentors and practice educators can support an additional 10,000 nursing and midwifery students while ensuring the quality of their practice placements.

Lord Prior of Brampton

The additional places will include placements in line with existing degrees, to do so there will be no change required to existing statutory regulation or education standards.Delivering suitable high quality placements as now, is part of the universities commitment on delivering an additional 10,000 student places.

Education standards will continue to be set United Kingdom-wide by the statutory Nursing and Midwifery Council and Health Care Professionals Council who as part of their approvals process assess the quality of practice placements. Professional bodies are also involved in setting curricula, particularly in the allied health professions and this will continue. It will be for universities to work as part of their local health economy with placement providers to secure extra placements for the additional students.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord MacKenzie of Culkein on 2015-12-01.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what reasons nursing and midwifery students have given for discontinuing their courses in each year since 2010, including financial reasons.

Lord Prior of Brampton

This data is not collected centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord MacKenzie of Culkein on 2015-12-01.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the capped number of nursing and midwifery students in each year since 1999.

Lord Prior of Brampton

The following table shows the number of pre-registration nursing and midwifery places (degree and diploma courses) that were commissioned by year, for the period 2000-01 to 2015-16. Information on planned commissions for the period 1999-2000 is not available.

Year	Nursing	Midwifery
2000-01	19,460	1,983
2001-02	20,668	2,029
2002-03	21,949	2,250
2003-04	23,553	2,285
2004-05	24,956	2,425
2005-06	24,520	2,380
2006-07	22,964	2,170
2007-08	21,569	2,115
2008-09	21,732	2,274
2009-10	21,337	2,537
2010-11	20,327	2,493
2011-12	18,069	2,507
2012-13	17,546	2,578
2013-14	18,056	2,588
2014-15	19,206	2,563
2015-16	20,033	2,605

Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns

Health Education England are the in process of developing commissioning plans for 2016-17. This process will conclude later this month with the publication of the Workforce Plan for England 2016-17.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord MacKenzie of Culkein on 2015-12-01.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have considered training nurses in England according to the approach used for trainee paramedics who receive a salary for the work they do while studying for their degree, and if not, why not.

Lord Prior of Brampton

The Department has no plans to move to the system proposed. Under the current system student nurses are supernumerary in the workforce during their clinical placements. This was introduced in the 1990s following criticisms, led by the Royal College of Nursing, that the employment model used student nurses as a major part of the workforce which did not effectively contribute to their learning, education and development to become competent registered nurses.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord MacKenzie of Culkein on 2015-09-17.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many ships were on the United Kingdom register in 2005, and in each year thereafter to date.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

The number of ships over 100 GT on the UK register in 2005 and to date are detailed below. All totals were correct at 31st December in the respective year.

December 2005 1,438

December 2006 1,456

December 2007 1,481

December 2008 1,550

December 2009 1,553

December 2010 1,503

December 2011 1,469

December 2012 1,401

December 2013 1,360

December 2014 1,327

The figure for 2015 – 1,328 is up to and including 31st August.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord MacKenzie of Culkein on 2015-09-17.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to review the regulations governing ship registration in the United Kingdom with a view to increasing the number of ships in the world fleet on the UK register without reducing standards.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

There are no specific plans yet.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is currently recruiting a new Director of the UK Ship Register (UKSR) for whom an early task will be to review current regulations in light of the aspiration to grow the UKSR, and make any appropriate recommendations.