Nurses: Migrant Workers
(asked on 31st October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many non-UK born nurses have worked in the NHS and social care services in each year for which data has been collected.
The number of non-United Kingdom born nurses working in the National Health Service and social care is not collected by the Department.
NHS Digital publishes data on the nationality of staff working in the NHS in England. The number of non-British nurses working in the NHS from 2009 to 2015 is set out in the table below:
Year | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Non-British Nurses and Health Visitors | 36,941 | 38,026 | 37,453 | 36,641 | 37,025 | 39,922 | 43,716 |
Source: NHS Digital, NHS Hospital and Community Health Service workforce statistics.
Notes:
1. Figures are provided in headcount and at September of each year.
2. 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.
3. These figures do not necessarily equate to migrants from other countries, and such data is not captured elsewhere in the workforce systems.
4. These figures exclude Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, who do not use the electronic staff record.
5. Nationally, over 95,000 NHS staff records do not contain useful data with people choosing not to specify their nationality or not asked to.
Skills for Care (SfC), the partner in the sector skills council for social care, collects data on the nationality of nurses working in adult social care in England. SfC estimates on the number of non-British nurses working in adult social care is set out in the table below:
Years | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
Registered nurses | 20,000 | 19,000 | 18,000 | 17,000 |
Source: Skills for Care workforce estimates 2012-13 to 2015-16
Notes:
1. This information refers to jobs working in the statutory local authority sector and the independent sectors only. Jobs for direct payment recipients and those working in the NHS are not included in these workforce estimates.
2. Independent sector information is derived from the National Minimum Dataset for social care (NMDS-SC) as at March 2013-16, local authority information is correct as at September 2012-15.