Asked by: Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what statistical data is kept centrally by the Department of Health on staff requirements met by the recruitment from overseas of (1) doctors, and (2) nurses.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
The Health and Social Care Information Centre collects data on staff working in National Health Service hospital and community health services. Nationality is a self-reported field within the electronic staff record system and data for 2015 shows that 27,279 doctors, including locums, self-reported as non-British and 47,190 nurses, midwives and health visitors self-reported as non-British.
Asked by: Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what statistical data is kept centrally by the Department of Health on the number of junior doctors trained in England and Wales who resign from NHS hospital employment and take up appointments overseas.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
The Department does not hold any statistical data on the number of junior doctors trained in England and Wales who resign from National Health Service hospital employment and take up appointments overseas.