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<p>In the Cancer Workforce Plan for England which was published in December 2017,
Health Education England (HEE) set out the need to target additional training support.</p><p>As
part of the development of the NHS People Plan, HEE will now work with NHS England
and NHS Improvement to understand the longer-term workforce implications for further
development of cancer services. This will include ensuring sustainable growth beyond
2021 in key professions (including radiography) through continued investment in training
places, with a greater focus on attracting and retaining students and improving the
numbers of qualified professionals who go on to work in the National Health Service.
The number of radiographers required will be addressed in the final NHS People Plan
and is dependent on the service model used by each NHS trust.</p><p>NHS Digital publishes
Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include
staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff
working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or
other providers.</p><p>As at February 2019, latest available data, there were over
14,000 full time equivalent diagnostic radiographers and over 2,000 therapeutic radiographers
employed by the NHS trusts and CCGs, 2,990 and 726 more, respectively, since 2010.</p><p>
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