Question follow-through · 65484
Nurses: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure newly qualified nurses are not prevented from accessing band 5 roles within the NHS due to (a) experience requirements and (b) such roles only being ad
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure newly qualified nurses are not prevented from accessing band 5 roles within the NHS due to (a) experience requirements and (b) such roles only being ad
9 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2025
Answer published
Decisions about recruitment are a matter for individual National Health Service employers, who manage this at a local level to ensure they have the staff they need to deliver safe and effective care.NHS England is working with employers, universities, and...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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