Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of clinical staff who will be employed by the NHS in (a) 2020, (b) 2025 and (c) 2030.
Responsibility for staffing levels rests with individual National Health Service trusts and their boards who are best placed to decide how many staff they need to provide a given service, taking into account skill mix and efficiency.
Health Education England is responsible for ensuring that there is sufficient future supply of staff to meet the workforce requirements of the English health system. Its latest Workforce Plan for England covering the period 2016/17 is available in this link:
https://www.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Workforce%20Plan%20for%20England%202016-17.pdf