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Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that workforce planning maintains the full complement of (a) staffing and (b) skills needed to deliver the highly specialised sarcoma services commissioned by

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 21 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 27 Oct 2025
Answer: 27 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

21 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that workforce planning maintains the full complement of (a) staffing and (b) skills needed to deliver the highly specialised sarcoma services commissioned by
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to publishing a 10 Year Workforce Plan to create a workforce ready to deliver the transformed service set out in the 10-Year Health Plan, including for the delivery of cancer services. The plan will ensure the National Health S...

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