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Mr. Frank Field
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has for the training of nurses in psychosocial nursing.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
All nurses who are admitted to part 3 of the Professional Register (Registered Mental Nurse) are given training in psychosocial nursing. This aspect of development psychology is encompassed in the knowledge base of the 1982 syllabus of training.