Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many junior doctors were employed by the NHS in (a) West Yorkshire and (b) England in each of the last five years.
The information is shown in the following table:
Doctors in Training as at 30 September between 2011 and 2015 in England and Yorkshire and Humber
Year | England | Yorkshire and Humber |
2011 | 50,059 | 5,124 |
2012 | 50,318 | 5,024 |
2013 | 51,013 | 4,994 |
2014 | 51,686 | 4,944 |
2015 | 51,308 | 4,895 |
Source: NHS Workforce Statistics, February 2016, published by Health and Social Care Information Centre
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