Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of the diagnostic staff that will work as part of the expanded community diagnostic centre programme will be (a) agency or bank and (b) newly recruited staff.

The information requested is not held centrally.

NHS England and Health Education England are developing a plan to ensure sufficient workforce capacity in community diagnostic centres. This aims to improve existing good practice across the professional workforce to increase capacity through the optimisation of staff and the variety of skills available, retention and health and wellbeing measures.