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Allied Health Professions: Recruitment

Asked by Sonia KumarLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 13 March 2025UIN 35523

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the allied health professional workforce.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The refreshed Long Term Workforce Plan, which will be published in summer 2025, will deliver the transformed health service we will build over the next decade, and will ensure that the National Health Service has the right people, including allied health professionals, in the right places, with the right skills to deliver the care patients need, when they need it.

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