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(asked on 16th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people who joined the NHS workforce in England in the last 12 month period for which figures are available are known to have (a) British nationality, (b) European Economic Area nationality other than British and (c) another nationality.


Answered by
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Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 19th January 2017

The latest information available is presented in the following table.

Joiners to the National Health Service by nationality group, which is self reported, in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England, 30 September 2015 to 30 September 2016.

Headcount

All nationalities

155,997

United Kingdom

117,795

European Economic Area excluding UK

15,052

Rest of the world

13,149

Unknown

10,024

Source: NHS Digital, NHS Hospital & Community Health Service workforce statistics.

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