Question follow-through · 106399
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department provides to Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust in Chelmsford to recruit and?retain?specialist cancer nurses and cancer workforce.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 26 Jan 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department provides to Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust in Chelmsford to recruit and?retain?specialist cancer nurses and cancer workforce.
20 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Government and NHS England are acting to ensure that we train the staff we need to ensure patients are cared for by the right professional, when and where they need it including at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT).In 2024/25, an estima...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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