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Community Diagnostic Centres: Staff

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 3264, tabled on 22 November 2023

Question

Maggie Throup
Conservative
Erewash
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish a workforce strategy for the community diagnostic centre programme.

Answer

Andrew Stephenson
Conservative
Pendle
Commons

Answered on

30 November 2023

NHS England is working on a plan to ensure sufficient workforce capacity, including for community diagnostic centres, to enable workforce expansion with the right skills and roles, in the right locations and at the right time. In 2022/23, this resulted in over 4,300 new starters across the training pipeline for diagnostics and cancer.

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