NHS: Migrant Workers
(asked on 30th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many non-EU citizens have (1) left employment in the NHS, and (2) started employment in the NHS over the last 12 months 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 (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows those who have joined and those who have left National Health Service trusts and CCGs in England, by nationality, between 30 June 2017 and 30 June 2018, which is latest data available.
Joiners | Leavers | |
All nationalities | 154,458 | 137,161 |
of which: |
|
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United Kingdom | 120,965 | 110,446 |
European Union (excluding UK) | 11,384 | 10,487 |
Other European Economic Area countries | 122 | 93 |
Rest of the World | 15,094 | 8,288 |
Unknown | 6,893 | 7,847 |
Source: NHS HCHS quarterly workforce statistics, NHS Digital