Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many social care workers left employment with the NHS in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016; and how many such workers were non-UK EU or EEA nationals.
NHS Digital publishes quarterly data on turnover by nationality of staff working in the National Health Service in England. In addition, NHS Digital publishes staff in post figures bi annually.
Nationality is self-reported within the NHS human resources and payroll system, the electronic staff record.
Social Care Workers have been defined as all staff within the Social Services care setting of the NHS occupation codes.
The information is shown in the attached tables. The December data is the most recent data available.