Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many permanent gastroenterologist consultants were employed in the NHS in the last six years.
The following table shows the number of permanent gastroenterologist consultants employed in the National Health Service in England in the last six years. The figures are taken from the NHS hospital and community health services (HCHS) monthly workforce statistics, which are published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
NHS HCHS Gastroenterology Consultants in England
full-time equivalent
July 2010 | July 2011 | July 2012 | July 2013 | July 2014 | July 2015 |
713 | 797 | 838 | 882 | 921 | 1, 005 |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics, July 2015