NHS: Ancillary Staff
(asked on 11th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) cleaners and (b) hospital porters were employed in the NHS in each of the last five years.
The Department collects data from National Health Service organisations on the number of staff that are employed to undertake cleaning work. The number of staff, measured using whole time equivalents, will include both staff employed directly by the organisation and contracted out staff. The information for the last five years is provided in the table.
Period | Number of cleaning staff (Whole Time Equivalents) |
2013-14 | 38,653 |
2012-13 | 38,867 |
2011-12 | 41,046 |
2010-11 | 39,167 |
2009-10 | 38,814 |
Information on the number of hospital porters cannot be provided because this data is not currently collected centrally. However, the Department will begin the collection of this information starting with the 2014-15 period, which will be published in October 2015.
The information provided in the table has been supplied by the NHS and has not been amended centrally. The accuracy and completeness of the information is the responsibility of the provider organisation.