Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Earl Howe on 19 November (HL Deb, col 864), how many meetings that included at least one Minister were held in the past 12 months as part of the regular review of the regulation of healthcare assistants.[HL3854]
Answer
Ministers routinely discuss issues such as this, and have kept the issue of the regulation of healthcare assistants under regular review. This matter was considered in great detail in the numerous Ministerial meetings that were convened in order to determine the Government's response to the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust Public Inquiry. Our intention is for all healthcare support workers to have the right training, values and support to provide high quality care.