NHS: Migrant Workers

(asked on 21st November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many non-UK EU nationals were employed by the NHS in oncology in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 29th November 2017

NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the headcount figure of non-United Kingdom European Union nationals employed by the National Health Service in oncology at 31 August 2014 to 2017.

NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Staff working in the NHS in oncology as at 31 August each specified year (Headcount).

Staff in oncology (Headcount)

August-2014

August-2015

August-2016

August-2017

Non-UK EU nationals

573

678

813

854

Source: NHS Digital monthly HCHS workforce statistics

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