Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help increase retention levels of junior doctors in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield, and (c) London.

The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan sets out how to improve culture and leadership, to ensure that up to 130,000 fewer staff leave the National Health Service over the next 15 years. The plan includes: implementing actions from the NHS People Plan that have been shown to be successful; implementing plans to improve flexible opportunities for prospective retirees and delivering the actions needed to modernise the NHS pension scheme; and committing to ongoing national funding for continuing professional development for nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals, so NHS staff are supported to meet their full potential.

Additionally, for junior doctors, NHS England’s Enhancing Junior Doctors' Working Lives programme continues to implement a number of measures aimed at supporting junior doctors, encouraging them to stay in training and the NHS, and reducing overall attrition. This includes measures such as Less than Full Time training options, to allow trainees to continue to work in the service and progress with their training on a reduced working pattern, where this is beneficial for their personal circumstances.  These measures apply across England, including in the Enfield North constituency and all London boroughs.