NHS: Directors

(asked on 12th October 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Diana Johnson Portrait
Diana Johnson
(Labour - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many directors were employed by NHS (a) trusts and (b) foundation trusts at the start of the 2014-15 financial year; and of those directors, how many no longer held posts in each type of trust by the start of the (i) 2015-16 and (ii) 2016-17 financial years.

Answered by
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Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 20th October 2016

The following table from NHS Digital shows the number of National Health Service Hospital and Community Health Services Directors: Leavers from selected job roles in NHS trusts in England, between 31 March 2014 and 31 March 2016.

Data is not available for the 2016-17 financial year so the latest data has been provided

Headcount

Leavers

March 2014

March 2014 to March 2015

March 2014 to March 20161

Foundation trusts

1160

222

373

Trusts excluding foundation trusts

570

130

220

Source: NHS Digital, NHS Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) workforce statistics.

Notes:

  1. These figures include staff who had left by March 2015 shown under the previous column.
  2. The data includes the following job roles Board Level Director, Other Executive Director, Chief Executive, Director of Nursing, Director of Public Health, Finance Director, Medical Director.
  3. The data excludes Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
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