Breast Cancer: Surgery
(asked on 14th June 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 assessment he has made of the adequacy of the (a) capacity of and (b) levels of service provision by the oncoplastic workforce.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 21st June 2022
No recent assessment has been made. In 2022/23 Health Education England is investing an additional £50 million to expand the cancer and diagnostics workforce in priority professions, including clinical radiology, histopathology, gastroenterology, clinical and medical oncology, diagnostic and therapeutic radiography.