Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of trained radiologists in (a) Slough constituency and (b) the south-east of England as of December 2022.

The Department does not hold information on National Health Service (NHS) staff by constituency. Data on staff working across hospital and community health services is published monthly based on the hospital trust that employs staff. The latest data currently available is for October 2022.

As of October 2022, there were 50 full-time equivalent (FTE) doctors working in the specialty of clinical radiology at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. Of these, 40 FTE were consultant, associate specialist or specialty doctor grades.

At the same point in time there were 723 FTE doctors, working in the specialty of clinical radiology across NHS trusts and commissioning bodies in the South East of England. Of these, 518 FTE were consultant, associate specialist or specialty doctor grades.