Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the commitments made in his Department's policy paper Our plan for patients, published on 22 September 2022, how many (a) 111 call handlers and (b) 999 call handlers were employed by NHS England as of 19 December 2022.
Whilst NHS England collects information on the number of call handlers working in NHS 111 and 999 services, this information has not been centrally validated.