Asked by: Tom Pursglove (Conservative - Corby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent doctors there were in the NHS in (a) 1985, (b) 1990, (c) 1995, (d) 2000, (e) 2005, (f) 2010 and (g) 2015.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
NHS Digital data for monthly workforce statistics is not comparable to figures before 2009 due to a change in data collection methods.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics, and the following table shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) hospital and community health service (HCHS) doctors that were employed by the National Health Service in October in 2010 and 2015.
Year | HCHS Doctors (FTE) |
October 2010 | 97,103 |
October 2015 | 104,719 |
Source: NHS Digital monthly workforce statistics