Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care what estimate he has made of the average cost to the NHS of employing one (a) nurse, (b) midwife, (c) doctor and (d) GP.

The Department’s estimates of the average cost to the National Health Service employing a midwife, a nurse and a doctor at a full-time equivalent (FTE) are set out in the following table. These costs include total earnings, national insurance and pension contributions.

Source: Departmental Headline Hospital and Community Health Services Pay Bill Metrics, which are based primarily on earnings statistics published by NHS Digital, supplemented by employer pension and national insurance contributions estimates informed by unpublished and unvalidated data from the Electronic Staff Record Data Warehouse.

Pay bill per FTE levels reflect average experience and pay levels as well as non-basic earnings such as overtime which can fluctuate. These figures do not include any other costs associated with employing or training that member of staff such as recruitment costs.

General practitioner contractors are not employed by the NHS but hold one of three contracts (General Medical Services, Personal Medical Services or Alternative Provider Medical Services) with NHS England to undertake work for the NHS.