NHS: Termination of Employment
(asked on 22nd April 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an estimate of the number of NHS (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) staff that left the NHS for reasons other than reaching the age of retirement in 2023.
NHS England publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. This data is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record, and the Human Resources system for the National Health Service. Ad hoc supplementary information releases are made which include reasons for leaving, where they are known, for staff leaving the NHS by staff group. The latest data published for all staff groups is for April 2022 to March 2023, and is available at the following link:
This has been superseded for nurses and health visitors by the Nurse leavers by reason for leaving and gender, September 2022 to 2023, which is available at the following link:
People leaving active service in NHS trusts will include those moving to primary care services, in particular doctors in training grades and non-NHS providers, or those going to work permanently or temporarily in healthcare services in other areas of the United Kingdom.