Heidi Alexander – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Heidi Alexander on 2016-02-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much Health Education England spent on clinical placements for (a) nursing, (b) midwifery and (c) allied health students in the latest year for which figures are available.

Ben Gummer

Health Education England’s (HEE) planned clinical placement expenditure for the year 2015/16 is estimated as follows[1]:

(a) Nursing: £100 million

(b) Allied Health Professionals: £34 million

(c) Midwifery: £13 million

HEE is currently working towards a common coding structure to be applied by Local Educations and Training Boards to the composite parts of trust clinical placement payments to provide detailed breakdown of actual expenditure for healthcare trainees in future years.

[1] These figures are rounded to the nearest million.