NHS: Re-employment
(asked on 14th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS staff have been made redundant and subsequently re-employed by NHS organisations on a (a) permanent and (b) fixed-term contract basis since May 2010.
The number of National Health Service staff estimated to have been made redundant since May 2010 and subsequently, up until March 2015, re-employed by an NHS organisation on a permanent basis is 3,700 and a fixed term contract basis is 1,868.
Returning on Permanent Contracts
Permanent | Redundancies | Returned |
2010-11 | 5,521 | 889 |
2011-12 | 6,819 | 1,051 |
2012-13 | 6,786 | 993 |
2013-14 | 4,693 | 591 |
2014-15 | 2,482 | 176 |
Returning on Fixed Term Contracts
Fixed Term | Redundancies | Returned |
2010-11 | 5,521 | 475 |
2011-12 | 6,819 | 512 |
2012-13 | 6,786 | 478 |
2013-14 | 4,693 | 288 |
2014-15 | 2,482 | 115 |
These estimates are derived from unvalidated data from the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Data Warehouse, and so only cover redundancies from, and re-employment to, those organisation that use ESR. Two trusts do not use ESR.
Figures for 2014-15 cover redundancies and returns to December 2014.