NHS: Staff

(asked on 29th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of NHS staff in administrative leadership roles identified as (i) white British and (ii) from any other ethnic group in the most recent data available.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 18th April 2018

Equality and diversity information is held by NHS Digital in the Electronic Staff Record, and is published on a six monthly basis. The most recent data from September 2017 is provided below.

Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics: Ethnicity in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England by staff group, September 2017, percentage of ethnicity

Total number

White

Other Ethnic Groups

Unknown

Not stated

Doctors

116,427

53.1%

38.5%

2.4%

6.0%

Nurses and Health Visitors

320,024

75.2%

20.8%

0.6%

3.3%

Midwives

26,001

85.4%

11.1%

0.5%

3.0%

Very Senior Managers

2,085

85.3%

5.8%

2.4%

6.5%

Note: percentages do not sum due to rounding.

We do not currently collect data on the professional background of leaders in the NHS.

The Government published the Race Disparity Audit in October 2017. Detailed NHS workforce statistics have been published on the Ethnicity Facts and Figures website, which can be found at the link:

https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/work-pay-and-benefits/public-sector-workforce/nhs-workforce/latest

Additionally, the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), which has measured the experience of BAME staff in the NHS since 2016, has shown that the number of very senior managers from Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds increased by 18% from 2016 to 2017. There has also been a steady increase in the number of NHS trusts which have more than one BAME board member. There are now a total of 25 NHS trusts with three or more BAME members of the board; an increase of nine trusts since 2016. The December 2017 WRES publication can be found at the link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/workforce-race-equality-standard-data-reporting-december-2017/

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