Question follow-through · 35192
Health Professions: Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the utilisation of (a) unemployed and (b) underemployed healthcare professionals in the NHS.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 7 Mar 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the utilisation of (a) unemployed and (b) underemployed healthcare professionals in the NHS.
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Mar 2025
Answer published
Decisions about recruitment are matters for individual National Health Service trusts. NHS trusts manage their recruitment at a local level, ensuring they have the right number of staff in place, with the right skill mix, to deliver safe and effective car...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Health Professionals: Unemployment
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Cancer: Young People
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Social Security: Advisory Services
7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to expand the statutory obligation for local authorities to include welfare advice.
Infant Foods
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Autism
30 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to update the statutory guidance on the Autism Act.
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Musculoskeletal Disorders: Health Services
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Musculoskeletal Disorders: Health Services
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30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish monthly reports from each of the 15 local partnerships on re-matching social care workers to new employers.