Question follow-through · 1243

Health Professions: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the availability of jobs for newly qualified (a) nurses, (b) doctors and (c) other medical professionals.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 14 May 2026
Target answer date: 18 May 2026
Answer: 1 Jun 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

14 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the availability of jobs for newly qualified (a) nurses, (b) doctors and (c) other medical professionals.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jun 2026
Answer published
We will publish a 10 Year Workforce Plan to set out action to create a workforce ready to deliver the transformed services set out in the 10-Year Health Plan.The 10 Year Workforce Plan will ensure the National Health Service has the right people in the ri...

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