NHS: Staff
(asked on 16th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional non-medical staff have been recruited to the NHS since the end of 2019.
The following table shows the increase in number of full-time equivalent non-medical staff, by staff group, working in National Health Service trusts and commissioning bodies from the end of 2019 to the latest month that the data is available.
Staff group | December 2019 | October 2022 | Change |
Non-medical professionally qualified clinical staff | 479,815 | 527,280 | 47,465 (9.9%) |
Support to clinical staff | 341,992 | 385,084 | 43,092 (12.6%) |
NHS infrastructure support staff | 180,540 | 205,321 | 24,781 (13.7%) |
Total non-medical staff | 1,002,347 | 1,117,685 | 115,338 (11.5%) |
Source: NHS Digital Workforce Statistics.
Note:
Non-medical professionally clinical qualified staff will include nurses, midwives, ambulance staff and scientific, therapeutic and technical staff.