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Nurses: Career Development

Commons · Question 48900 · Tabled 29 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 8 May 2025

Question

Asked by Steve Barclay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to help improve the career progression of (a) nurses from Agenda for Change Band Five to Band Six and (b) other nurses in the context of plans not to introdu

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 8 May 2025

Evidence submitted through the separate nurse pay spine call for evidence highlighted that career progression issues relating to the pay system do not uniquely impact nurses.We have therefore accepted several recommendations from workstreams committed to ...