Laurence Robertson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Laurence Robertson on 2016-01-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of colleges which are available to carry out Objective Structured Clinical examinations.

Ben Gummer

The Department has not made an assessment of the number of colleges available to carry out Objective Structured Clinical examinations (OSCE).

It is the responsibility of the professional regulators to set the standards and outcomes for education and training and approve training curricula to ensure newly qualified healthcare professionals are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide high quality patient care. This may include setting out how training is assessed, for example through OSCEs.