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.
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 |