Andrew Gwynne – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2016-01-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many students began podiatry courses in the last three years; what assessment he has made of the reasons for trends in those numbers; and what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of applicants to such courses.
Ben Gummer
This table shows the planned number of podiatry courses available in the last three years, and the actual take up of those training places.
|
Year |
2013/14 |
2014/15 |
2015/16 |
|
Podiatry (planned) |
365 |
362 |
362 |
|
Podiatry (actual) |
339 |
345 |
– |
Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns
The number of podiatry students taking up courses for 2015/16 is not yet available.
The Health Education England (HEE) annual Workforce Plan for England 2016/17 will be published by the end of February 2016.
Ministers hold regular discussions with HEE on a broad range of workforce supply issues and puts out an annual Mandate to HEE setting its priorities for the coming year.
The HEE commissioning and investment plan – 2016/17 includes a forecast increase in supply of podiatrists in the National Health Service workforce of 36.4% by 2020 which is an additional 1,084 full time equivalents coming out of training.
