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.
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 |