Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to promote careers in the NHS.

The people who work in our National Health Service are one of our greatest assets and we are committed to championing them. We will continue to promote the NHS as a great employer, as well as celebrating the excellent work being done by individuals across the health service.

For example, we have recently announced that we are expanding medical training places by 1,500 from September 2018, and the process is now complete for allocating those places to medical schools across the country who will deliver the training, including five entirely new medical schools.

Furthermore, in December of last year, Health Education England launched a draft workforce strategy in order to set out a comprehensive system wide understanding of our workforce needs for the future. The draft strategy formed the basis of a consultation which is now closed, and a final strategy will be released later this year.