Radiology

(asked on 2nd September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the challenges experienced by NHS hospitals in recruiting consultant radiologists.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 9th September 2014

The Department has set up Health Education England (HEE) to deliver a better health and healthcare workforce for England. It is responsible for the education, training and recruiting for values of doctors.

HEE is responsible for ensuring a secure workforce supply i.e. balance against demand and not a growth or reduction in the National Health Service workforce.

HEE published its national workforce plan for England on 17 December 2013 which increased training places for clinical radiology by 1.3% to a planned level of 1067. The plan forecasts that this level will be sufficient to grow the consultant workforce by 23% in 2020.

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