Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff working for (a) the University Hospitals Coventry and (b) Warwickshire NHS Trust have been (i) non-UK EU citizens and (ii) citizens of countries outside the EU in each year since 2015.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the staff in post data as requested is not split by the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. However, data is available for the number of Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) staff of different nationalities employed in Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust as at December in each specified year.
NHS HCHS: HCHS staff in Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust by nationality group, as at the last day in December, 2015-17, headcount.
Organisation name | Nationality group | December 2015 | December 2016 | December 2017 |
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust | All nationality groups | 3,800 | 3,778 | 3,747 |
United Kingdom | 3,591 | 3,555 | 3,538 | |
European Union | 82 | 80 | 79 | |
European Economic Area | 1 | - | - | |
Rest of World | 123 | 135 | 130 | |
Unknown | 3 | 8 | - | |
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust | All nationality groups | 7,339 | 7,491 | 7,818 |
United Kingdom | 5,528 | 5,646 | 5,835 | |
European Union | 175 | 210 | 262 | |
European Economic Area | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
Rest of World | 494 | 527 | 567 | |
Unknown | 1,141 | 1,106 | 1,153 |
Source: NHS Digital NHS HCHS workforce statistics.
As of December 2017 there were over 3,600 more EU staff in the National Health Service than in June 2016.