Nurses: Recruitment
(asked on 13th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on the effect of the UK leaving the EU on that Trust's ability to recruit nursing staff.
The Secretary of State for Health has not had discussions with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust specifically on the Trust’s ability to recruit nursing following the United Kingdom leaving the European Union.
The Secretary of State holds regular discussions with all National Health Service trusts throughout the year on a broad range of issues, including workforce.
NHS Digital publishes data on the nationality of staff working in the NHS in England. The table below shows the number of EU27 citizens employed within trust’s active in Oxfordshire at 31 March 2017:
| European Union 27 |
Total Specified Organisations | 1,783 |
NHS Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group | 3 |
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust | 318 |
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 1,462 |
Notes: The nationality field available within the systems, upon which these figures are based, contains self-reported information from individual employees. Nationally thousands of NHS staff records do not contain useful data with people choosing not to specify their nationality or not asked to. In addition, as nationality is self-reported the value entered by an individual may reflect their cultural heritage rather than their country of birth. As such, these figures should be treated with a significant degree of caution
Source: NHS Digital, NHS Hospital and Community Health Service workforce statistics
The Department is committed to ensuring that the NHS and social care system have the nurses, midwives, doctors, carers and other health professionals that they need.
As negotiations continue around the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, the Department and its arm’s length bodies will continue to support the health and care system to ensure they are able to deliver the services on which patients rely.
The Department continues to monitor and analyse overall staffing levels across the NHS, and is working across Government to ensure there will continue to be sufficient staff to deliver the high quality service that patients expect.