Junior Doctors

(asked on 13th June 2016) - View Source

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.


Answered by
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Ben Gummer
This question was answered on 21st June 2016

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

Notes:

  1. The figures include Specialty Registrars, Core Medical Training, Core Dental Training, Foundation Doctor Years 1 and 2.

  1. Figures are published in Health Education England regions. Yorkshire and Humber region includes figures for West Yorkshire.

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