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Proceeding contribution from Matt Hancock (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 25 March 2021. It occurred during Debates on delegated legislation on Coronavirus.

That is a good question. The truth is that we have a record number of nurses in the NHS, over 300,000, in part because the Act allowed for their emergency registration much more swiftly than previously. Parts of the Act have allowed us to do good things like that, which everybody would like to see. When we come to retire the Act, which we must within one year and preferably within six months, we will need to make sure

we can continue to do that sort of thing to ensure that nurses can be enrolled into the NHS as easily as possible. I cannot answer whether we will be retiring it in six months. My preference would be yes, but given the last year I think a prediction would be hasty.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
691 c1115 
Session
2019-21
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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