Ambulance Services: Staff
(asked on 13th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many paramedics and ambulance technicians were employed by NHS Trusts in England in each of the last 10 years.
The following table shows the number of full time equivalent paramedics and ambulance technicians working in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England from February 2012 to February 2022.
Date | Paramedics | Ambulance technicians |
February 2012 | 11,825 | 5,254 |
February 2013 | 12,437 | 4,636 |
February 2014 | 12,657 | 4,329 |
February 2015 | 12,666 | 4,247 |
February 2016 | 12,837 | 4,729 |
February 2017 | 13,328 | 5,765 |
February 2018 | 13,985 | 5,763 |
February 2019 | 14,869 | 5,832 |
February 2020 | 16,091 | 6,374 |
February 2021 | 16,954 | 6,424 |
February 2022 | 17,117 | 6,554 |
Source: NHS Digital Workforce Statistics