Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans she has to publish a workforce strategy for the community diagnostic centre programme.

There are currently no plans to publish a diagnostic workforce strategy for the community diagnostic centre (CDC) programme. NHS England has a plan to ensure sufficient workforce capacity, including for CDCs, to enable workforce expansion with the right skills and roles, in the right locations and at the right time. In 2022/23, this resulted in over 4,300 new starters across the training pipeline for diagnostics and cancer.