NHS: Staff
(asked on 9th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many staff were employed in the NHS in (1) 2015, (2) 2018, (3) 2020, and (4) 2021.
The table below shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) and headcount (HC) of staff employed in the National Health Service (NHS) in Hospital and Community Health Service settings as of December in each year requested:
| 2015 | 2018 | 2020 | 2021 |
Total staff (FTE) | 1,019,677 | 1,082,978 | 1,170,771 | 1,212,478 |
Total staff (HC) | 1,156,662 | 1,226,362 | 1,319,010 | 1,362,335 |
Source: NHS Digital Monthly Workforce Statistics
Hospital and Community Health Services include staff working in hospital trusts and commissioning bodies, but excludes staff working in primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities, and other bodies providing NHS funded care.