Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what Health Education England is required to deliver in March 2017 to satisfy the mandate for a strategic review of the cancer workforce.

In the 2016-17 Mandate to Health Education England (HEE), the Government tasked HEE with taking forward the relevant recommendations set out in the Independent Cancer Task Force’s report ‘Achieving World Class Cancer Outcomes: a strategy for England 2015-2020’, including to work with partners to develop a vision for the future shape and skills mix of the workforce required to deliver a modern, holistic patient-centred cancer service.

The strategic review includes a baseline of the current cancer related workforce; a review of the current skills mix; and a strategy for working with Cancer Alliances and Local Workforce Action Boards to find solutions for workforce challenges as new models of service delivery emerge.