Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered am ar 17 Rhagfyr 2018.
Jim Cunningham
Llafur, Coventry South
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of EU nationals recruited to work in the NHS in (a) Coventry, (b) West Midlands and (c) England in each year since 2010.
Stephen Hammond
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows the headcount figures for the number of European Union national joiners to National Health Service trusts and CCGs in England, West Midlands and Coventry as at 30 June each year and the latest data available.
England | Coventry | ||
June 2010 - June 2011 | 6,101 | 321 | 22 |
June 2011 - June 2012 | 6,239 | 321 | 27 |
June 2012 - June 2013 | 8,061 | 397 | 24 |
June 2013 - June 2014 | 11,457 | 643 | 35 |
June 2014 - June 2015 | 13,667 | 822 | 47 |
June 2015 - June 2016 | 15,449 | 782 | 64 |
June 2016 - June 2017 | 12,720 | 687 | 83 |
August 2017 - August 2018 | 11,565 | 557 | 77 |
Source: NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital. Nationality is self reported.
Joiners and leavers data shows people leaving or returning to active service, this would include those going on or returning from maternity leave or career break, for example. EU nationals may have been employed in the United Kingdom before joining the NHS.
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