Health Professions: Radiology

(asked on 21st July 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent radiographers were employed by the NHS in (a) 2022, (b) 2021 and (c) 2020.


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Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 20th September 2022

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in National Health Service hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but excludes staff working in primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities and other providers.

The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) digital and therapeutic radiographers working in NHS trusts and CCGs in England in March 2020, 2021 and 2022.

FTE diagnostic radiographers

FTE therapeutic radiographers

March 2020

15,057

2,952

March 2021

15,668

3,017

March 2022

16,123

2,957

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