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 retired from the NHS in (1) 2015, (2) 2018, (3) 2020, and (4) 2021.
The table below shows the headcount of staff who worked in Hospital and Community Health Service settings, and who have a ‘retired’ reason for leaving in the Electronic Staff Record for 2015, 2018, 2020, and 2021.
2015 | 2018 | 2020 | 2021 | |
All retirement related reasons for leaving | 27,153 | 26,201 | 28,707 | 31,405 |
Of which flexible retirement | 3,491 | 4,010 | 4,795 | 5,079 |
Source: NHS Digital
Staff who retire may later return to National Health Service (NHS) employment. More specifically, staff recorded as flexi-retirement would be expected to return to NHS employment working hours on a different contract.