Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 119001

Paramedical Staff: Recruitment

Tabled: 9 March 2026

Answered: 13 March 2026

Question

Luke Taylor

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

No estimate has been made of the number of newly qualified paramedics unable to secure employment in National Health Service ambulance trusts.Decisions on the employment of newly qualified paramedics are a matter for individual NHS trusts which manage the...

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