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.
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 |
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Learning disabilities nurses | 2,974 | 2,998 | 3,040 | 3,167 |
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Source: NHS Hospital and Community Health Service monthly workforce statistics, NHS England. | |||||