HC Deb 24 October 2002 vol 391 cc502-3W
Mr. Boswell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the proposed NHS University. [76411]

Mr. Hutton

Professor Bob Fryer CBE was appointed as Chief Executive of NHSU and Vice Chancellor designate of the proposed NHS University in February 2002. NHSU is the body that has been set-up to prepare the establishment of a university for the National Health Service.

NHSU is currently finalising a development plan for the NHSU setting out the vision for the university, as the basis for an extensive consultation exercise with the NHS and its partners, between November 2002 and January 2003. The plan will be widely distributed and a number of consultation events will be organised jointly with NHS workforce development confederations around the country.

The NHSU will begin to work later next year.