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<p>Responsibility for staffing levels rests with individual National Health Service
trusts and their boards who are best placed to decide how many staff they need to
provide a given service, taking into account skill mix and efficiency.</p><p> </p><p>Working
with local providers, it is Health Education England’s responsibility to determine
the appropriate numbers of students the NHS needs in training on an annual basis.
Its latest Workforce Plan for England covering the period 2016/17 is available in
this link:</p><p><a href="https://www.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Workforce%20Plan%20for%20England%202016-17.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Workforce%20Plan%20for%20England%202016-17.pdf</a></p><p>
</p><p>The most recent NHS workforce statistics from NHS Digital for staff working
in trusts and clinical commissioning groups shows that the full time equivalent number
of doctors within the pathology specialty group is 4,125 representing an increase
of more than 11% increase since May 2010.</p>
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