NHS: Overtime
(asked on 28th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hours of unpaid overtime have NHS (a) nurses, (b) doctors, (c) midwives, (d) paramedics and (e) staff overall, worked in each of the last three years.
The information requested is not collected centrally. However, the NHS Staff Survey asks respondents whether they routinely complete unpaid work and the average number of hours completed. The following table shows the proportion of staff who reported doing unpaid work in the 2021 NHS staff survey by occupation group and the average amount of unpaid work per week.
Occupation group | No unpaid work | Up to five hours | Six to 10 hours | Over 11 hours |
All respondents | 43% | 43% | 10% | 4% |
Nurses and midwives | 33% | 50% | 12% | 5% |
Medical and dental | 22% | 52% | 19% | 7% |
Paramedics | 56% | 35% | 6% | 3% |
Source: 2021 NHS Staff Survey