NHS: Doctors and Nurses
(asked on 27th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the retention rate for NHS (a) nurses and (b) doctors in England has been in each of the last three years for which data are available.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the annual stability index of nurses and doctors, between 30 September 2014 and 30 September 2017, in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England, headcount:
| September 2014 to September 2015 | September 2015 to September 2016 | September 2016 to September 2017 |
Nurses and health visitors | 88.0% | 88.3% | 88.3% |
Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) Doctors including doctors in training | 82.9% | 84.9% | 85.4% |
Source: NHS Digital NHS HCHS workforce statistics.
The Stability Index is the percentage of staff at the start of the period that do not leave the specified group (e.g. nurses and health visitors) during the period in question. For example, if a trust had 100 nurses in July and a year later 90 of those nurses remained in post, the Stability Index would be 90/100 expressed as a percentage: 90%.
A staff member will be counted as a leaver only if he/she leaves the NHS altogether, or if they move to a new staff group, i.e. stop being a nurse. Movers between trusts but who stay within the same staff group are not counted as leavers.