Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the NHS is taking to ensure that blood cancer patients have access to a named Cancer Nurse Specialist.
The National Health Service in England is continuing to grow the Cancer Nurse Specialist (CNS) workforce. The 2020/21 People Plan outlined Health Education England’s commitment to provide training grants for an additional 350 nurses to become CNSs and chemotherapy nurses. The People Plan also commits to extending cancer support-worker training which will further increase the capacity of Clinical Nurse Specialists already in post.