Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 50609

Health Services: Staff

Tabled: 7 May 2025
Answered: 12 May 2025

Question

Adam Thompson

LabourErewash

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a national healthcare worker register including training records to protect vulnerable clients.

Answer

Karin Smyth
There are no plans to establish a national healthcare worker register. All health and care professional regulators have a statutory duty to maintain a register of the professionals they regulate. The health and care professional regulators’ registers are ...

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