Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 191802

Cardiovascular System: Surgery

Tabled: 29 June 2023
Answered: 5 July 2023

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the number of training places for vascular surgeons to 30 to 40 each year.

Answer

In January 2023 Health Education England announced that nearly 900 additional medical specialty training posts have been created for this year, including the expansion of 20 specialty training posts in vascular surgery, from August 2023. An additional 15 ...
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