Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) FTE nurses, (b) midwives and (c) health visitors were there in the NHS workforce as of 30 September 2019 and as of December 2021.

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff employed by local authorities or non-National Health Service providers. The publication also includes nurses working in general practice settings. This data is sourced from the Electronic Staff Record, the NHS’ human resources and payroll system.

The following table shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) midwives and health visitors in NHS trusts and CCGS in England in September 2019 and December 2021.

The following table shows the number of FTE nurses working in NHS trusts, CCGs and general practice settings in September 2019 and December 2021.