Ambulance Services: Staff
(asked on 7th February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many ambulance workers were employed by NHS trusts in England in each of the past five years.
This question was answered on 20th February 2023
The table below shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) ambulance workers in the National Health Service provider trusts and commissioning bodies in England.
| Nov 2018 | Nov 2019 | Nov 2020 | Nov 2021 | Nov 2022 |
Ambulance Workers (FTE) | 37,063 | 39,288 | 42,072 | 43,026 | 43,818 |
Source: NHS Digital Workforce Statistics
Note: Ambulance workers have been defined as all professionally qualified clinical ambulance staff and those providing support to clinical ambulance staff.