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Health Visitors: Training

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 25 March 2019.

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Photo of Jon Ashworth Jon Ashworth Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many training places for health visitors have been (a) commissioned and (b) filled in each financial year since 2010-11.

Photo of Jackie Doyle-Price Jackie Doyle-Price The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care

The number of planned health visitor training places, along with the number of entrants in England each year is shown in following table.

Number of planned training commissions against entrants for health visitor programmes in England

Entry year

Planned commissions

Entrants

2010-11

-

545

2011-12

-

1,606

2012-13

-

2,266

2013-14

-

2,787

2014-15

1,041

1,159

2015-16

1,193

884

2016-17

817

539

2017-18

-

448

Source: Health Education England, Financial Management System records (until 2012-13) and Education Commissioning (EdCom) dataset (after 2012-13)

Notes:

  1. Data up until 2012-13 is based on financial years. Data after 2012-13 is only available in academic years.
  2. Data on planned commissions is only available for years 2014-15 to 2016-17.
  3. Planned commissions are provisional and so not necessarily equal to the actual number of training places available.

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  • (Citation: HC Deb, 25 March 2019, cW)

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