§ Mr. KennedyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department has conducted any exercises in computer modelling in relation to the supply of nursing staff, similar to those conducted by the Institute of Manpower Studies in relation to the supply of teaching staff in its study, "The Supply of Teachers 1989".
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyIn 1988 the Department initiated, on a national basis, a computer model which looks at the impact of Project 2000 (the new system of nurse education), together with demographic change and the changing patterns of nurse recruitment and retention, on the supply of trained nurses up to and beyond the year 2000. The model was made available to the NHS in 1989.