Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England: Staff
(asked on 3rd September 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the headcount of staff members was at (a) his Department and (b) NHS England in each month between February and September 2025.
The table below shows the number of employees in the Department and workers in NHS England at the end of each month between February and August 2025. September figures are not yet available as the month has not yet ended.
NHS England Executives made a deliberate decision not to restrict recruitment to clinical training posts until a review of post-graduate clinical education and training has been completed. While recruitment to clinical training posts has caused an overall increase in NHS England’s headcount, its wider workforce has reduced in size, as shown in the table below, due to the recruitment controls enacted.
Month | Department Headcount | NHS England Headcount | GP Educators (Included in NHS England Headcount) | Wider Workforce (Included in NHS England Headcount) |
February 2025 | 3,682 | 18,965 | 1,137 | 17,828 |
March 2025 | 3,697 | 19,021 | 1,144 | 17,877 |
April 2025 | 3,700 | 19,015 | 1,193 | 17,822 |
May 2025 | 3,703 | 19,307 | 1,501 | 17,806 |
June 2025 | 3,700 | 19,282 | 1,540 | 17,742 |
July 2025 | 3,700 | 19,032 | 1,557 | 17,475 |
August 2025 | 3,664 | 19,193 | 1,784 | 17,409 |
Source : Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England
Note: The GP Educators workforce provides clinical supervision and training to general practitioners.