Health Visitors
(asked on 13th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) actual and (b) full time equivalent health visitors who have been employed in each of the last seven years.
NHS Digital publishes information on workforce statistics and the following table shows the full time equivalent (FTE) and headcount (HC) figures for health visitors working in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in each of the last seven years.
NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Health visitors in NHS trusts and CCGs in England as at 30 November each specified year (FTE and HC).
Year | Health visitors (FTE) | Health visitors (HC) |
November 2010 | 7,961 | 9,884 |
November 2011 | 7,812 | 9,626 |
November 2012 | 7,963 | 9,647 |
November 2013 | 8,526 | 10,213 |
November 2014 | 9,629 | 11,407 |
November 2015 | 10,279 | 12,173 |
November 2016 | 9,376 | 11,142 |
November 2017 | 8,317 | 9,995 |
Source: Provisional NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital