Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 30854

Paediatrics: Pathology

Tabled: 11 February 2025
Answered: 24 February 2025
Named Day

Question

Alison Hume

LabourScarborough and Whitby

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the number of qualified pathologists specialising in paediatric pathology (a) in total and (b) in the Scarborough Hull York Pathology Serv

Answer

Karin Smyth
No specific assessment has been made of the adequacy of the number of qualified pathologists or paediatric pathologists either across England or at the Scarborough, Hull, and York Pathology Service.The Department is aware that workforce shortages in paedi...

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