Nurses: Recruitment
(asked on 9th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (a) how many nurses who began work with the NHS in each of the last seven years and (b) what proportion of all NHS nurses are from other other EU member states.
The below table shows details of doctor and nurse joiners to the National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England taken from the NHS Digital Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics.
NHS HCHS: HCHS doctor and nurse joiners to NHS trusts and CCGs in England, between June in each specified year, 2010 to 2017, headcount
| Nurses | Doctors |
June 2010 to June 2011 | 25,713 | 15,877 |
June 2011 to June 2012 | 24,965 | 16,133 |
June 2012 to June 2013 | 29,846 | 16,581 |
June 2013 to June 2014 | 33,473 | 17,748 |
June 2014 to June 2015 | 32,693 | 18,024 |
June 2015 to June 2016 | 34,733 | 17,995 |
June 2016 to June 2017 | 32,375 | 19,252 |
Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the latest data at 30 June 2017 shows that 9.3% of doctors report their nationality as non-United Kingdom, European Union and 6.8% of nurses report their nationality as non-UK, EU.