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Cancer: Nurses

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 72362, tabled on 9 November 2021

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to double the number of cancer nurse specialists by 2030.

Answered on

15 November 2021

Following the outcome of the Spending Review 2021, plans for individual budgets for 2022/23 to 2024/25 inclusive, including for training cancer nurse specialists, will be subject to a detailed financial planning exercise and finalised in due course. Plans for subsequent years will be subject to future Spending Reviews.