Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many therapists are working in primary care at (a) March 2017 and (b) the most recent date for which data is available.
The latest data available are at 31 March 2017. The figures are set out in the table below.
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Census | Therapists2 | Physiotherapists3 | ||||||
England | England | |||||||
Headcount | Full-Time Equivalent4 | Headcount | Full-Time Equivalent4 | |||||
March 2017 1 | 49 | 17 | 35 | 16 |
Source: NHS Digital
Notes:
1All data as at 31 March, which is the most recent date for which data is available.
2Primary Care staff working in any of the following job roles, as defined by the Workforce Minimum Data Set (WMDS) - 'Therapist- Counsellor', 'Therapist- Occupational Therapist' or 'Therapist- Other'.
3Primary Care staff working in a job role of 'Physiotherapist', as defined by the WMDS.
4Full Time Equivalent (FTE) refers to the proportion of full time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours, 0.5 that they worked half time, where 1 FTE = 37.5 hours per week.
Figures contain estimates for practices that did not provide fully valid Direct Patient Care (DPC) data. DPC staff group contains the job roles 'Physiotherapist', 'Therapist- Counsellor', 'Therapist- Occupational Therapist' or 'Therapist- Other'.
These figures refer to therapists and physiotherapists employed directly by a primary care provider (and would not include staff working in a primary care setting but employed by other organisations - e.g. National Health Service trusts)