NHS Trusts: Recruitment

(asked on 20th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to provide additional funding to NHS trusts to support increased recruitment of clinical staff.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 23rd February 2018

It is the responsibility of National Health Service trusts to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes allocating resources and recruiting the staff needed to support these levels and meet local needs.

The Government previously committed to providing the NHS with an additional £10 billion, in real terms, by 2020/21 and recent commitments mean that by 2019/20, the NHS it will have received an additional £2.8 billion of revenue funding for frontline services – including staffing - than previously planned over the period.

The Government is also taking a number of actions to increase the supply of NHS clinical staff who will be available for recruitment into the NHS. This includes expanding undergraduate medical school places and nurse training places by 25% and broadening routes into nursing.

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