NHS: Migrant Workers
(asked on 1st March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many non-UK, non-EU nationals work in the NHS in England.
This question was answered on 14th March 2016
The Health and Social Care Information Centre collects data on the number of staff working in National Health Service hospital and community health services in England.
Nationality is a self-reported field within the NHS electronic staff record system. Of those individuals who declared their nationality, 1,050,034 (93.5%) are European Union nationals (this includes 994,693 British nationals and 55,341 other EU nationals). There are a further 73,681 (6.5%) non United Kingdom and non EU nationals.