Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) nurses and health visitors, and (b) Hospital and Community Health Services doctors left NHS in England in (i) 2018-19 and (ii) 2019-20, by reason for leaving.

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practice surgeries, local authorities or other providers. A table showing the number of nurses and health visitors and HCHS doctors who have left the National Health Service in England in 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 by reason for leaving is attached.