Cancer: Nurses

(asked on 26th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a ringfenced fund for specialist cancer nurses.


Answered by
Simon Clarke Portrait
Simon Clarke
This question was answered on 31st January 2022

Investing in our NHS workforce is critical to delivering NHS services, and this includes specialist cancer nurses. The government is committed to delivering 50,000 additional nurses this Parliament and funding for this is already ringfenced. Alongside this commitment, the government will provide hundreds of millions of pounds in additional funding over the SR21 period to ensure a bigger and better trained NHS workforce. The Treasury is working closely with DHSC to develop detailed workforce spending plans and the cancer workforce requirements will be an important part of those considerations.

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