Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what training healthcare workers receive to increase awareness of signs of cerebral palsy in babies and children.
Answered on
12 January 2017
Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) are responsible for ensuring the programmes they provide allow healthcare students to meet the outcomes set out by the regulators upon graduation. For example the Nursing and Midwifery Council sets the standard for nursing which the HEIs must meet when developing curricula and training programmes.
The medical Royal Colleges, for example the Royal College of General Practitioners, have responsibility for developing postgraduate training curricula for doctor for approval by the General Medical Council (GMC).
Health Education England works with regulatory bodies such as the GMC, and the organisations that design curricula such as the medical Royal Colleges, to seek to ensure training meets the needs of patients.
Continuing Professional Development is the responsibility of individual practitioners and their employers.