Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many junior doctors were employed by the NHS in (a) London and (b) England in each of the last five years.
The information is shown in the following table:
Doctors in Training as at 30 September between 2011 and 2015 in England and London.
Year | England | London |
2011 | 50,059 | 11,684 |
2012 | 50,318 | 11,902 |
2013 | 51,013 | 11,985 |
2014 | 51,686 | 12,136 |
2015 | 51,308 | 11,830 |
Source: Health & Social Care Information Centre
Notes: The figures include Specialty Registrars, Core Medical Training, Core Dental Training, Foundation Doctor Years 1 and 2.