Doctors: Resignations
(asked on 20th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many doctors have left the NHS since the UK voted to leave the EU.
There has not been any significant change in the number of doctors and nurses leaving the National Health Service since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, and they have moved broadly in line with the two years preceding the referendum.
Since the EU referendum, there are a total of 3,601 additional staff from EU27 countries.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following tables show the number of doctors and nurses and health visitors who left NHS employment since the UK voted to leave the EU.
Leavers from NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England from 30 June 2016 to 31 December 2017
| NHS Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) Doctors - Leavers (Headcount) | Nurses and Health visitors - Leavers (Headcount) |
June 2016 to June 2017 | 16,201 | 34,452 |
July 2017 to December 2017 | 12,125 | 17,871 |
Source: NHS Digital, HCHS workforce statistics.