Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nurses have left their employment with the NHS within 12 months of completing their degree in each of the last 10 years for which records are available.
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services 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.
NHS Digital cannot identify which of the nurse leavers had left within 12 months of completing their degree, nor whether they moved to primary care of social care sectors.