Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to ensure that NHS staff are appropriately trained to use new innovations in diagnostic technology.

The Cancer Workforce Plan for England, published in December 2017 by Health Education England (HEE), set out the actions needed to target additional training support for several priority professions, including diagnostic and therapeutic radiography.

There are several initiatives to prepare the healthcare workforce, through education and training, to deliver the digital future. For example, the Topol Review, led by cardiologist, geneticist, and digital medicine researcher Dr Eric Topol and facilitated by HEE, is exploring how best to enable National Health Service staff to make the most of technologies such as genetic diagnostics.