Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many previously retired NHS staff have worked in the NHS in each month since March 2020.
NHS England and NHS Improvement have provided the following information. As at July 2020, 15,245 former healthcare professionals had completed pre-employment checks, 8,755 former clinicians had been deployed to acute services for employment and 2,140 former clinicians had been employed across NHS 111, NHS Test and Trace, acute trusts and social care.