Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the forthcoming NHS People Plan will include a fully costed plan to address the needs of NHS staff providing vascular services in (a) England and (b) Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; and if he will make a statement.

The NHS People Plan will set the national strategic direction for how the National Health Service workforce will be staffed to deliver the NHS Long Term Plan commitments in the short and longer term.

NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with Regional teams and alongside the ‘Getting It Right First Time’ programmes to jointly improve vascular services, including the workforce challenges.

Local NHS organisations, such as Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, will be expected to continue to plan and cost their own workforce based on local population needs.

It is expected that the full NHS People Plan will be published in early 2020.