Health and Social Care Bill

My Lords, we have, I hope, threaded education and training through the Bill and established it as a core principle for all providers. In support of the comments by the noble Lord, Lord Turnberg, it is essential to place on record that the vast majority of specialist training for all those specialties in secondary care occurs in those places that will have foundation trust status, if they do not have it already. That future investment in the specialist workforce to provide services is essential and there is merit in restating the importance of it.