Nurses
(asked on 25th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many qualified nurses were employed in the NHS in (1) 2015, and (2) 2010.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics. The following table shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) nurses and health visitors working in the National Health Service in May
2015 and May 2010.
FTE | May 2010 | May 2015 |
Nurses | 280,950 | 281,326 |
Source: NHS Digital, provisional NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics.
Notes: Health visitors may be employed by NHS provider organisations, but may also be employed directly by local authorities or other care providers. Current data collections do not cover the complete range of these organisations. As a result, it is not possible to provide accurate data on the total size of the health visitor workforce.