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<p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has commissioned
Baroness Dido Harding Chair of NHS Improvement, working closely with Sir David Behan,
Chair of Health Education England, to lead a number of programmes to engage with key
National Health Service interests to develop a detailed workforce implementation plan.</p><p>
</p><p>This programme of work will consider detailed proposals to grow the workforce,
including consideration of the additional staff and skills required to deliver round
the clock high quality care. Baroness Harding and Sir David Behan will present initial
recommendations to the Department in spring 2019. A final workforce implementation
plan will follow later in the year, taking into account the outcomes of the Spending
Review.</p><p> </p><p>Universities consistently continue to recruit students onto
undergraduate diagnostic radiography university courses in England, with acceptances
onto courses increasing every year since 2014. The latest NHS Digital data shows that
as at October 2018 there are 3,084 more full time equivalent diagnostic radiographers
in the NHS than there were in May 2010.</p><p> </p><p>Diagnostic radiographer education
and training and recruitment in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland is a matter for
the devolved governments in each nation.</p>
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