NHS: Migrant Workers
(asked on 23rd January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many EEA nationals from countries other than the UK were employed in the NHS in each year since 2015.
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows the headcount figures for all HCHS staff in England who have specified an European Economic Area (EEA) nationality as at 30 September for each of the years specified.
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
HCHS staff who have specified an EEA nationality | 371 | 401 | 432 | 467 |
HCHS staff who have specified an EU27 nationality | 52,808 | 59,796 | 61,974 | 63,484 |
Source: National Health Service HCHS quarterly workforce statistics, NHS Digital