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 roles the 50,000 Nurses Programme nurses have been recruited into; and how many of those nurses have been recruited into breast cancer nursing roles.
No specific assessment has been made as decisions on the deployment of additional nurses are made locally. This includes information on the specific roles the additional nurses are recruited to, such as breast cancer nursing. As of April 2022, there were more than 29,000 additional nurses working in the National Health Service, compared to September 2019.