Question follow-through · 31305
Medicine: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to increase the number of clinical academics in the UK.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 24 Feb 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to increase the number of clinical academics in the UK.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Feb 2025
Answer published
We recognise that clinical academics are crucial to training future generations of healthcare professionals and leading research across the health and care system. In 2023, NHS England published an Educator Workforce Strategy, setting out the actions requ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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