Learning Disability: Nurses

(asked on 27th November 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many full-time equivalent learning disabilities nurses were employed across all NHS organisations in England in each of the past three years.


Answered by
Baroness Merron Portrait
Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 8th December 2025

NHS England publishes monthly NHS Hospital and Community Health Service Workforce Statistics for England. These include staff working for hospital trusts and core organisations but excludes staff working for other providers such as in primary care, general practice, or social care. This data is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record, the human resources system for the National Health Service. The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent learning disability nurses in hospital trusts and core organisations across England as of 30 September for each of the years 2022 to 2025:

30 September 2022

30 September 2023

30 September 2024

30 September 2025

Learning disabilities nurses

2,974

2,998

3,040

3,167

Source: NHS Hospital and Community Health Service monthly workforce statistics, NHS England.

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