Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the finding that 18 per cent of consultant physicians who took part in the Royal College of Physicians Census 2023 reported that they almost never feel in control of their workload.

We are committed to growing and supporting the National Health Service workforce. The Government has published the Long Term Workforce Plan for the NHS. The Plan includes projections for the numbers of doctors, nurses and other professionals that will be needed for the next 15 years, taking full account of improvements in retention and productivity. The plan will help ensure that we have the right numbers of staff, with the right skills to transform and deliver high quality services fit for the future.