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National Education and Training Survey 2026
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Introduction

Welcome to the National Education and Training Survey

The National Education and Training Survey (NETS) is your opportunity to tell us about your experience of learning and training in a health or care setting.

We want to understand what is working well, the challenges you face and what would improve your experience. Your feedback will help NHS England and education and placement providers improve education and training for students and trainees and the current and future health and care workforce.

Your voice matters

By taking part, you can highlight good practice and help identify where change is needed. Every response contributes to a clearer national picture of education and training across health and care.


🔒 Your responses are confidential 

Your individual responses will not be shared with your employer, university, education provider, supervisor or assessor. Findings will be reported for groups of respondents to protect your anonymity.

This survey is not a route for reporting an urgent concern or requesting immediate support. If you need advice or help outside the survey, please visit raising concerns

Before you start

The survey should take around 10 minutes to complete. You can save your progress and return later by selecting Save and Continue.

The first question asks:  What best describes you?

Your answer will ensure that you see the questions most relevant to you. Guidance is available.

What happens next

We will ask about:

  1. Your university, education provider or training programme
  2. Where you are learning or training
  3. Your learning and training experience

Please answer each question based on your own experience - your feedback will help us understand what matters most to the current and future health and care workforce.

Thank you for taking part and sharing your experience.

Privacy Notice

Our Privacy Notice is available to view here.

Your Privacy: Protected
We want your honest views on the quality of education and training you’ve experienced so far; it’s why all individual responses to the survey are confidential. We also don't publish data where there are fewer than three learners in your placement, so responses can't be attributed to individuals. However, your answers will still contribute to the overall findings for your placement provider. Please note: If you choose to provide your email address to either save and continue the survey or to confirm completion of the NETS, we will not use or store your contact email address for any other reason other than for the purposes of the NETS.

The Care Act, 2014, outlines our responsibility for securing continuous improvement in the quality of education and training provided for the health and care workforce; and via this continuous improvement in the quality of the health service.
As a responsible organisation it is our duty to remind you of your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA).  Information pertaining to the NETS survey is outlined below:
We have commissioned SmartSurvey to process the responses to the survey.  Further information on how SmartSurvey will use your data can be found in the SmartSurvey Privacy Policy.
The legal basis for processing of your data falls under Article 6(1)(e) of GDPR – Public Task.  The legal basis for processing special category data falls under 9(2)(a) of GDPR – Consent.  You do not have to disclose your demographic information to complete the survey, therefore we have given you the option to choose ‘do not wish to disclose’.  We ask for this information to identify any specific student groups who are not experiencing high quality clinical training placements. It will also help us to identify and act on any issues or concerns.

This survey respects the privacy of those taking part with individual responses kept confidential and stored securely. If a serious concern is identified in the survey, we will disclose personally identifiable information (name, programme title/placement location and email address) to education and placement providers to allow immediate action to be taken.
The data provided in the survey will be retained securely by NHS England and SmartSurvey in accordance with organisational Records Management policies.