8th Special Report - Nursing degree apprenticeships: in poor health?: Government response to the Committee’s Eighth Report

This is the government's response, published 4 March 2019.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The Government states that it agrees with the Committee's recommendations on NHS support for nursing apprenticeships and on CPD, but "do[es] not agree" on the funding band and has "no plans" to extend levy expiry or widen levy-funded costs.

• On the Committee's recommendations to maintain a conversation with the NHS and expand nursing degree apprenticeships, the Government says "We agree with the Committee's recommendations" and points to partner-led support for NHS employers.
• On the £27,000 funding band, it states "We do not agree", saying an increase would make the programme "unaffordable" and that it has "no plans to raise the £27,000 limit".
• On levy flexibility, it says employers should cover employment costs and that wider funding criteria would make the programme "unaffordable"; it has "no plans to extend" the 24 month expiry period.
• On CPD, it agrees with the recommendations. Baroness Harding and Sir David Behan will present initial recommendations to DHSC in Spring 2019, with a final workforce implementation plan "later in the year".

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