Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 16344

Paramedical Staff

Tabled: 6 July 2026
Answered: 13 July 2026

Question

Jess Brown-Fuller

Liberal DemocratChichester

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure NHS ambulance trusts have sufficient funding to recruit newly qualified paramedics.

Answer

Karin Smyth
Decisions on recruitment and employment are a matter for individual National Health Service trusts which manage their recruitment at a local level, ensuring they have the right number of staff in place, with the right skill mix, to deliver safe and effect...

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