Health Professions: Per Capita Costs
(asked on 25th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the average cost to the NHS of employing one (a) nurse, (b) midwife, (c) doctor and (d) GP.
The Department’s estimates of the average cost to the National Health Service employing one nurse, midwife and doctor are set out in the table below. Costs for recruitment and training are not collated centrally.
Staff Group | Estimated Average Paybill per Full-Time Equivalent (FTE), 2015/16 |
Qualified nurses, midwives and health visitors | £42,300 |
Midwives | £45,900 |
All hospital and community health services (HCHS) doctors | £96,600 |
Notes:
Figures relate to 2015/16. Separate figures for qualified nurses are not available. Costs include employer national insurance and pension contributions but not other costs such as recruitment and training (This information is not collected centrally.) Doctors in General Practice are not included: the available cost information includes all practice costs, e.g. accommodation and other staff.
Pay bill per FTE levels do not depend solely on pay policy and pay awards. They also reflect patterns in those leaving and joining the workforce and the impact this has on average experience and pay levels, and they reflect patterns in non-basic earnings such as overtime which can fluctuate.
Source: Department of Health’s Headline HCHS Pay bill Metrics, which are based primarily on earnings statistics published by NHS Digital, supplemented by employer pension and national insurance contributions estimates informed by unpublished and unvalidated data from the Electronic Staff Record Data Warehouse.
The NHS does not employ general practitioners (GPs). The latest data from NHS Digital shows that the average income before tax in 2014/15 for a full time contractor GP in England was £103,800. For full time salaried GPs, the average income in England in 2014/15 was £53,700.