Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full time equivalent nurses have been employed by NHS England in each year since 2010.

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but exclude staff working in primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities, and other providers.  The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent nurses working in HCHS in England, as at September in each year since 2010 and the latest available data from April 2022.

Source: NHS Digital HCHS Workforce Statistics