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Written Question
Cancer: Health Services
Thursday 13th February 2020

Asked by: Edward Timpson (Conservative - Eddisbury)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase the range of skills in the cancer workforce (a) by supporting the expansion of the responsibilities of advanced clinical practitioner roles and (b) through other steps.

Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

Health Education England published its first ever Cancer Workforce Plan in December 2017, which commits to the expansion of capacity and skills. The upcoming NHS People Plan will set out further actions to secure the National Health Service staff and cancer workforce we need for the future.