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 take steps to expand national capacity for paediatric interventional radiology training.

As of January 2023, there were 1,584 full-time equivalent (FTE) trainee doctors working in clinical radiology services in the National Health Service in England. This is an increase of 274 (20.9%) since 2020.

The Government funded an additional 20 Specialty Training posts for interventional radiologists in 2021/22 and 2022/23. These increases have expanded the number of radiologists who can train to deliver paediatric interventional radiology.