Nurses: Resignations
(asked on 27th 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 nurses left the NHS in each year since 2012.
NHS Digital publishes information on workforce statistics and the following table shows the headcount figures for nurses who left the National Health Service as at September in each specified year.
NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Leavers from the NHS in England who were nurses, 2012 to 2017, headcount
| Headcount |
September 2012 to September 2013 | 28,547 |
September 2013 to September 2014 | 30,551 |
September 2014 to September 2015 | 33,800 |
September 2015 to September 2016 | 32,926 |
September 2016 to September 2017 | 33,530 |
Source: NHS Digital NHS HCHS workforce statistics
NHS Digital HCHS workforce statistics show that as at December 2017 there were 40,400 more professionally qualified clinical staff, including over 14,700 more doctors and over 6,600 more nurses and midwives, than in May 2010.