Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what strategic workforce planning is in place to ensure that prosthetic and orthotic services are resilient to both national security demands and systemic pressures on the healthcare workforce.

The Department of Health and Social Care, the National Health Service, and the Ministry of Defence continue to ensure health services, including prosthetic and orthotic services, can respond effectively to meet the demands of conflict situations through regularly reviewing system-wide capacity.

The Department of Health and Social Care’s commitment to longer term workforce planning through the 10 Year Workforce Plan will also ensure that the NHS has the right people in the right places, with the right skills to care for patients, when they need it.