Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 9 February 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to his Department's document ESA214-The Work Capability Assessment, page 5, what estimate he has made of the average length of time an approved healthcare professional spends completing stage 1-The prescribed training course.
Stage one of ESA training consists of two elements:
1. Pre-course reading-the time taken is dependent on the individual healthcare professional
2. A programme of face to face trainer led training which takes:
6 days for new entrant doctors
15 days for new entrant nurses
20 days for new entrant physiotherapists.
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