PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health Professions: Cancer and Diagnosis (20 July 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will provide additional funding for expanding the (a) cancer and (b) diagnostic workforce in the (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25 financial years.

Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)

Health Education England is investing an additional £50 million in 2022/23 to increase the cancer nursing and scientific workforce and expand the postgraduate medical training of key cancer-related medical professions, including pathologists, histopathologists, clinical radiologists and oncologists. Plans for individual budgets from 2023/24 to 2024/25 will be finalised in due course.

Answered by:
Maria Caulfield (Conservative)
5 September 2022