Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 8557

Healthcare Assistants: Recruitment

Tabled: 10 October 2024
Answered: 18 October 2024

Question

Mark Sewards

LabourLeeds South West and Morley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking recruit more full-time healthcare support workers.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The National Health Service has been facing chronic workforce shortages for years and we have to be honest that bringing in the staff the NHS needs will take time. The Government will make sure the NHS has the staff it needs to be there for all of us when...

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