Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the number of EU nationals who have left their jobs at (a) NHS England and (b) Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the last (i) year, (ii) two years and (iii) three years.

The following table shows the number of EU27 leavers from NHS England as at September each year since 2015 and to January 2019, headcount.

Source: Electronic Staff Record

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 in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.

The following table shows the number of EU27 leavers from Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as at September each year since 2015 and to January 2019 (the latest data), headcount.

Source: National Health Service HCHS monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital

Notes:

The total number of EU27 nationals leaving each organisation is smaller than the total number of EU27 nationals who joined between September 2015 and September 2018.

Nationality is self-reported.

Leavers data from Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust may include staff that have left to join other NHS trusts.

Leavers data includes people leaving active service temporarily, this would include those going on maternity leave or career break.