Respiratory System: Consultants
(asked on 23rd October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to increase the number of NHS respiratory consultants.
National Health Service workforce statistics published by NHS Digital show that the full time equivalent number of respiratory consultants employed by the NHS in England has increased by 60% between July 2010 and July 2018 (latest published data):
| Respiratory Consultants |
July 2010 | 653 |
July 2011 | 664 |
July 2012 | 705 |
July 2013 | 758 |
July 2014 | 816 |
July 2015 | 882 |
July 2016 | 929 |
July 2017 | 980 |
July 2018 | 1,048 |
Source: NHS Hospital and Community Health Service monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital
Responsibility for staffing levels, including the number of consultant posts, rests with individual NHS trusts and their boards who are best placed to decide how many staff they need to provide a given service.