Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his announcement of 5 December 2017, that the NHS will employ 300 additional radiologists in connection with the Cancer Workforce Plan, whether any of those positions will be for interventional neuroradiologists trained to perform procedures including mechanical thrombectomy.

Health Education England (HEE) published the Cancer Workforce Plan in December 2017 and set out that HEE will invest in 300 reporting radiographers and 668 more clinical radiologists by 2021. At this stage and until training has been commenced it is not known how many of the radiology positions will be taken up by the subspecialty of interventional neuroradiology.