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Community Diagnostic Centres: Recruitment

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 86604, tabled on 3 December 2021

Question

Helen Hayes
Labour
Dulwich and West Norwood
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the additional staff it may need to deliver the 100 new Community Diagnostic Centres announced at the Spending Review 2021.

Answer

Edward Argar
Conservative
Charnwood
Commons

Answered on

8 December 2021

Community diagnostic centres will be launched to expand diagnostic services in England. Professor Sir Mike Richards’ review of diagnostic services estimates that to support this expansion, it would require an additional 2,000 radiologists, 3,500 radiographers and approximately 500 advanced practitioners to undertake image reporting. The review also recommends expanding the workforce in endoscopy, cardiorespiratory, genomics and pathology to support the diagnostic services in England.

NHS England and NHS Improvement and Health Education England are considering staff training and role redesign to enable additional diagnostic capacity and improving workforce productivity using digital diagnostic investments.

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