Question follow-through · 49085
Health Professions: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that newly-qualified (a) nurses and (b) other healthcare professionals trained in the UK have sufficient job opportunities.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 6 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that newly-qualified (a) nurses and (b) other healthcare professionals trained in the UK have sufficient job opportunities.
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 May 2025
Answer published
Decisions on the availability of job opportunities for newly qualified nurses and other healthcare professionals trained in the United Kingdom are a matter for individual National Health Service trusts. NHS trusts manage their recruitment at a local level...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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