Nurses
(asked on 12th May 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many FTE nurses at each grade were employed in NHS England in (a) December 2019 and (b) the most recent month for which figures are available.
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in social care, primary care, local authorities or private sector providers commissioned by the National Health Service.
The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) nurses by Agenda for Change grade in the NHS in England in December 2019 and January 2021, the latest data available.
Grade | FTE nurses as at December 2019 | FTE nurses as at January 2021 |
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Band 1 | 0 | 0 |
|
Band 2 | 0 | 0 |
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Band 3 | 0 | 2 |
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Band 4 | 208 | 288 |
|
Band 5 | 133,272 | 136,228 |
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Band 6 | 88,328 | 92,963 |
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Band 7 | 48,887 | 51,732 |
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Band 8a | 12,829 | 14,249 |
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Band 8b | 3,011 | 3,339 |
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Band 8c | 1,273 | 1,334 |
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Band 8d | 490 | 581 |
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Band 9 | 171 | 213 |
|
Non AfC Grade | 723 | 562 |
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Total | 289,192 | 301,491 |
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Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics.
Staffing changes will be impacted by the cyclical nature of annual recruitment and training cycles.