Question follow-through · 64103
Physiotherapy: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the level of need for additional (a) physiotherapists and (b) rehabilitation support workers in (i) the NHS and (ii) independent sectors.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the level of need for additional (a) physiotherapists and (b) rehabilitation support workers in (i) the NHS and (ii) independent sectors.
3 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Department has made no specific assessment of the additional need for physiotherapists and rehabilitation support workers in the National Health Service and independent sectors.The Department will publish a 10 Year Workforce Plan to create a workforce...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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