Doctors: Resignations
(asked on 29th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doctors have left employment in the NHS in each year for which figures are available.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the number of doctors who left employment in the National Health Service each year at 30 June since 2010. June data is provided as this is the latest publicly available data for leavers from the NHS.
NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): HCHS doctor leavers from the NHS in England, in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups, between 30 June and 30 June 2010 to 2017, headcount.
Doctors (Headcount) | 2010 to 2011 | 2011 to 2012 | 2012 to 2013 | 2013 to 2014 | 2014 to 2015 | 2015 to 2016 | 2016 to 2017 |
Leavers | 14,289 | 15,197 | 16,203 | 15,468 | 15,574 | 17,267 | 16,201 |
Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics.
This data does not separately identify those doctors who may have taken a break from employment for e.g. maternity leave or a career break or those that may have switched to become a general practitioner.
Since 2010 the NHS has over 14,900 more doctors working in the NHS.