Health Visitors
(asked on 7th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health visitors were employed in each of the last three years.
This question was answered on 17th October 2016
The following table shows the number of full time equivalent health visitors employed in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England in each of the last three years.
Full time equivalent figures are used as this is the most accurate measure of service capacity.
30 June 2014 | 30 June 2015 | 30 June 2016 |
8,887 | 10,042 | 9,491 |
Source: NHS Digital NHS Hospital and Community Health Service monthly workforce statistics