Lord Willis of Knaresborough

To ask His Majesty's Government how many NHS funded organisations in England and Wales recruited nursing associates in each of the years between 2019 and 2024.

To ask His Majesty's Government how many general practice surgeries in England and Wales currently employ nursing associates.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to meet the targets for increasing the number of nursing associates included in the 2023 NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.

To ask His Majesty's Government how they intend to increase the adult social care workforce.

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase financial support for nursing associates who wish to become registered nurses.

To ask His Majesty's Government how many student nursing associates completed their training for adult social care in each year from 2018 to 2023.

To ask His Majesty's Government how many registered nurses and registered nursing associates left the Nursing and Midwifery Council resister in each of the years from 2018 to 2023.

To ask His Majesty's Government how many registered nurses were employed by the NHS in each year from 2013 to 2023.

To ask His Majesty's Government how many student nurses completed their training as a registered nurse in each year from 2018 to 2023.

To ask His Majesty's Government how many nursing associates completed their training to become registered nurses in each year from 2018 to 2023.

To ask His Majesty's Government how many student nursing associates completed their training in each year from 2018 to 2023.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to enable prescriptions to be shared electronically between (1) NHS services, and (2) homecare medicines service providers.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve interoperability of (1) NHS information management systems, and (2) homecare medicines services information management systems.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of requirements under the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/1916) for prescriptions to have either a wet signature or an advanced electronic signature on the efficiency o...

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of using paper-based systems for prescribing medicines on the efficacy of homecare medicines services.

To ask His Majesty's Government when they anticipate all NHS Trusts to have implemented Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration systems.

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the estimated cost of VAT to the NHS applied to the purchase of patient drugs in each of the past five financial years.

To ask His Majesty's Government why VAT is applied if an NHS hospital pharmacy supplies out-patient medicine but if a private sector pharmacy supplies the same medicine it is zero-rated.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps are being taken to (1) significantly reduce, and (2) reform, the amount of regulators and regulatory systems in the health and care sector.

To ask His Majesty's Government which minister is directly responsible for the ‘Homecare Medicines Service’; and what arrangements are in place to (1) coordinate, and (2) evaluate the service.