NHS: Migrant Workers

(asked on 12th January 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Tulip Siddiq Portrait
Tulip Siddiq
(Labour - Hampstead and Kilburn)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

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

Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 17th January 2018

NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the numbers of non-United Kingdom European Union nationals employed by the National Health Service in the following areas; Cardiology, Dermatology, Neurology and Obstetrics and Gynaecology at September 2015 – September 2017.

NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Specified Staff as at 30 September each specified year (Headcount).

Group/Area (Headcount)

September-2015

September-2016

September-2017

Cardiology

1,408

1,595

1,664

Dermatology

217

229

244

Neurology

467

514

523

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

602

678

722

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