Healthcare Assistants and Nurses

(asked on 15th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many full time equivalent NHS contracts for (1) registered nurses, and (2) health care assistants, there were in hospital trusts and community trusts in England in each year between 2010 and 2019.


Answered by
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Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 2nd August 2021

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, general practice surgeries, local authorities or other providers. The following table shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) registered nurses including health visitors and healthcare assistants as at September each year between 2010 and 2019.

FTE registered nurses

FTE healthcare assistants

September 2010

279,883

44,024

September 2011

277,047

45,401

September 2012

271,407

47,174

September 2013

274,627

51,645

September 2014

278,981

54,533

September 2015

281,474

58,919

September 2016

284,288

63,103

September 2017

283,853

65,840

September 2018

285,674

66,880

September 2019

291,533

70,331

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