§ Mr. LansleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many consultants in cancer specialities were working in the NHS in England in each year since 1999. [167700]
§ Mr. HuttonInformation on the number of consultants working in cancer specialties in England in each year since 1999 is shown in the table.
A range of national recruitment initiatives is in place to support doctors looking for consultant vacancies most suited to them. A new website at: www.doh.gov.uk/consultantjobs hosts thousands of consultant vacancies in England for domestic specialist registrars as well as potential international consultant recruits. Similarly, the national roll-out of e-recruitment, an online recruitment service for the NHS, will allow doctors to search and apply for consultant vacancies on one website. This new service at: www.nhs.uk/jobs will streamline and modernise the process of recruitment of all NHS staff. In addition, the new consultant entry scheme facilitates the placement of specialist registrars looking for fixed term placements to known consultant vacancies.