NHS Foundation Trusts: Nurses
(asked on 17th January 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 full time equivalent nurses are employed by all NHS Foundation Trusts in England in each year since 2009-10.
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practice surgeries, local authorities or other providers. The following table shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) nurses employed by a National Health Service trust with foundation trust status in England in September of each year from 2009 to 2021.
September 2009 | 112,518 |
September 2010 | 120,092 |
September 2011 | 130,702 |
September 2012 | 150,284 |
September 2013 | 157,257 |
September 2014 | 161,210 |
September 2015 | 171,506 |
September 2016 | 178,592 |
September 2017 | 180,629 |
September 2018 | 185,061 |
September 2019 | 192,742 |
September 2020 | 203,949 |
September 2021 | 212,922 |
Source: NHS Digital Workforce Statistics
Note:
The total number of FTE nurses does not match the total numbers of FTE nurses in all NHS trusts and CCGs published by NHS Digital. Not all NHS trusts are or have always held foundation trust status. Nurses employed in NHS trusts which did not hold foundation trust status at the point of data collection but later became foundation trusts because of a merger, are not included until after the trust they are employed in gained foundation trust status.