London Ambulance Service: Paramedical Staff

(asked on 10th May 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many paramedics were employed by the London Ambulance Service in each of the last five years.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 12th May 2016

London Ambulance Service currently has a national and international campaign to recruit additional paramedics which seeks to address the fall in staffing over recent years.

The table below shows the Full Time Equivalent (FTE) numbers of ambulance paramedics at London Ambulance Service. This information is sourced from HSCIC Monthly Workforce Statistics, January 2016.

Date

September 2011

September 2012

September 2013

September 2014

September 2015

Sum of Total FTE

1,871

1,885

1,892

1,778

1,762

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