Tulip Siddiq – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-02-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many medical professionals have completed each of Health Education England’s e-learning training sessions on female genital mutilation in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16 to date; and which e-learning training packages are currently available for medical professionals to access.

Ben Gummer

Health Education England’s Healthcare Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) e-learning programme was launched on 19 March 2015 and has been available for 11 months to date. We are therefore unable to provide statistics for the periods 2013-14 and 2014-15.

For the period 19 March 2015 to date, the numbers of professionals who have completed each of the e-learning modules are:

― Introduction to FGM – 4,325 times completed by users;

― communication Skills for FGM Consultations – 3,432 times completed;

― legal and Safeguarding Issues Regarding FGM in the United Kingdom – 3,198 times completed;

― FGM: Issues, Presentation and Management in Children and Young Women – 3,116 times completed; and

― FGM: Issues, Presentation and Management in Women and Around Pregnancy – 3,008 times completed.

All five of the above e-learning packages are currently available to healthcare professionals including school nurses, practice nurses, health visitors and general practitioners, via the e-learning for healthcare training platform.