Cancer: Nurses

(asked on 5th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the additional funding allocated to the NHS in the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 will be allocated to fund cancer nurse specialists.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 10th November 2021

The Spending Review 2020 provided £260 million to continue to grow our National Health Service workforce and support commitments made in the NHS Long Term Plan. This included £52 million in 2021/2022 for Health Education England to further invest in the cancer and diagnostics workforce, including offering training grants for 250 nurses wishing to become cancer clinical nurse specialists and for an additional 100 nurses wishing to become chemotherapy nurses.

The Spending Review 2021 delivers a three-year settlement from 2022/2023 to 2024/2025 inclusive. A three-year settlement provides greater certainty on funding and supports longer term planning and investment in the workforce in England.

Following the outcome of the Spending Review 2021, spending plans for individual budgets for 2022/2023 to 2024/2025 inclusive, including for training cancer nurse specialists, will be subject to a detailed financial planning exercise and finalised in due course.

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