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<p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics.
These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs),
but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local
authorities or other providers.</p><p>As at March 2019, the latest available data,
there were over 4,300 clinical radiologists employed by National Health Service trusts
and CCGs - this is 1,100 more since 2010.</p><p>The interim NHS People Plan, published
on 3 June 2019, puts the workforce at the heart of the NHS and will ensure we have
the staff needed to deliver high quality care. A final People Plan will be published
soon after the conclusion of the 2019 Spending Review.</p><p> </p><p>The Cancer Workforce
Plan for England, published in December 2017 by Health Education England (HEE), set
out plans to expand capacity and skills in the cancer workforce, including targeting
additional training support for seven priority professions such as clinical radiology,
histopathology, oncology and diagnostic and therapeutic radiography. Since 2017 there
has been an increase of 343 full time equivalent staff within clinical radiology.</p><p>
</p><p>HEE will now work with NHS England and NHS Improvement to understand the longer-term
workforce implications of further development of cancer services. This work will inform
the final People Plan.</p>
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