Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that funding is provided for the training and recruitment of chronic urinary tract infection specialists in the NHS.

Health Education England (HEE) supports the National Health Service by ensuring that the workforce has the right number, skills, values and behaviours, at the right time and the right place.

HEE’s commissions for 2017/18 are included in their third national workforce plan for England, through which they are investing in the appropriate areas, which can be found at:

https://hee.nhs.uk/our-work/workforce-strategy