Specialist Nurses (Parkinson's Disease)

Part of Health and Community Care – in the Scottish Parliament at 2:19 pm on 12 January 2006.

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Photo of Lewis Macdonald Lewis Macdonald Labour 2:19, 12 January 2006

All national health service organisations have a duty to ensure that all staff have personal development plans, which includes identifying the specific training needs of members of staff. They also have a responsibility for nursing and midwifery post-registration education and for working in partnership with staff to ensure that they are supported and encouraged to maintain and develop their skills.

Under the facing the future banner, we have committed more than £10 million to several nursing and midwifery initiatives during the past three financial years, because we recognise the importance of maintaining training opportunities in order to enable greater specialism in the future.