Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many trained psychiatrists have (a) joined and (b) left NHS-employment every year since 2010.

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commission groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.

The following table shows the number of fully trained psychiatrists, defined as those who have completed their Certificate of Completion of Training, also known as consultants, who have joined and left National Health Service employment or the psychiatry consultant grade, as at 31 July in each specified year, from 2010, headcount.