Cancer: Waiting Lists

(asked on 17th November 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to ensure an adequate number of specialist cancer staff to tackle the backlog in cancer services caused by covid-19.


Answered by
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Will Quince
This question was answered on 30th November 2022

From August 2016 to August 2022, there has been an increase of over 5,700 full time equivalent staff in cancer-related professions, including histopathologists, gastroenterologists, clinical radiologists, medical and clinical oncologists, diagnostic radiographers and therapeutic radiographers. In 2022/23, NHS England and Health Education England have invested a £81 million to develop and increase the cancer and diagnostics workforce.

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