NHS: EEA Nationals
(asked on 20th February 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the proportion of NHS staff from European Economic Area countries was in each of the last five years.
NHS Digital publishes self-reported data on the nationality of staff working in the National Health Service in England. The information is available in the following table.
NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) staff with a European Economic Area (EEA) nationality including United Kingdom, in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England, as at 30 September in each year, 2012 to 2016, headcount:
NHS trusts and CCGs, as at 30 September in each specified year |
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| headcount | ||
| September 2012 | September 2013 | September 2014 | September 2015 | September 2016 |
All nationalities | 1,117,038 | 1,111,101 | 1,131,680 | 1,151,138 | 1,175,668 |
EEA | 903,030 | 920,312 | 954,103 | 987,227 | 1,015,266 |
as a percentage of all known nationalities | 80.8% | 82.8% | 84.3% | 85.8% | 86.4% |
Unknown | 143,937 | 123,143 | 109,575 | 94,365 | 87,940 |
Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics. | |||||
Notes:
- The reduction in the number of staff with unknown nationality across this time period makes it difficult to definitely say that any group has increased in size. Any increase may be due more accurate classification of staff.
- An EEA national is a person who holds the nationality of an EEA member country and as such includes those who declare themselves as UK nationals.
- Headcount totals are unlikely to equal the sum of components due to some staff working in more than one role.