| Heading: |
Blood Cancer: Health Professions |
| Question ID: |
1797920 |
| UIN: |
48727 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5207 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Clive Jones
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Clive Jones
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) haematologists and (b) haemato-oncologists work in the NHS; and what the target numbers are for those professions. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-06 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4444 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Karin Smyth
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| Answering Member handle: |
karinsmyth
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@karinsmyth
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| Answer text: |
As of January 2025, there are 2,181 full time equivalent (FTE) doctors working in the specialty of haematology across National Health Service trusts and integrated care boards in England. This includes 1,025 FTE consultant haematologists.The Department do... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |