Question follow-through · 83446
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to include the mutual recognition of mandatory training qualifications between NHS Trusts in the forthcoming NHS Workforce Strategy.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to include the mutual recognition of mandatory training qualifications between NHS Trusts in the forthcoming NHS Workforce Strategy.
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2025
Answer published
As set out in the 10-Year Health Plan, we are committed to reforming mandatory training by April 2026, to ease the burden on frontline staff and to allow a more flexible approach to workforce development. NHS England is already leading work to optimise, r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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