There were some 636 thousand full-time equivalent professionally qualified clinical employees in NHS England as of September 2021. This statistic shows the number of professionally qualified clinical staff in the National Health Service (NHS) Hospitals and Community Health Services (HCHS) in England from 1995 to 2021, as of September of each year.
Number of professionally qualified clinical staff in the NHS Hospitals and Community Health Service (HCHS) workforce England from 1995 to 2021*
* Full-time equivalents as of September of each year.
Professionally qualified clinical staff include HCHS doctors, Nurses including health visitors, Midwives, Ambulance staff and Scientific, therapeutic & technical staff.
The source adds the following information for data from September 2009 to September 2019:
- Staff only include those in NHS Trusts and CCGs in England.
- These data relate to the HCHS workforce directly employed in NHS Trusts and CCGs who are paid for activity.
- Full time equivalent figures have been rounded to the nearest whole number.
- Full time equivalent refers to the proportion of full time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours, 0.5 that they worked half time.
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NHS Digital. (March 3, 2022). Number of professionally qualified clinical staff in the NHS Hospitals and Community Health Service (HCHS) workforce England from 1995 to 2021* [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 27, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/679938/number-of-professionally-qualified-clinical-staff-nhs-hchs-workforce-england/
NHS Digital. "Number of professionally qualified clinical staff in the NHS Hospitals and Community Health Service (HCHS) workforce England from 1995 to 2021*." Chart. March 3, 2022. Statista. Accessed May 27, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/679938/number-of-professionally-qualified-clinical-staff-nhs-hchs-workforce-england/
NHS Digital. (2022). Number of professionally qualified clinical staff in the NHS Hospitals and Community Health Service (HCHS) workforce England from 1995 to 2021*. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 27, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/679938/number-of-professionally-qualified-clinical-staff-nhs-hchs-workforce-england/
NHS Digital. "Number of Professionally Qualified Clinical Staff in The Nhs Hospitals and Community Health Service (Hchs) Workforce England from 1995 to 2021*." Statista, Statista Inc., 3 Mar 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/679938/number-of-professionally-qualified-clinical-staff-nhs-hchs-workforce-england/
NHS Digital, Number of professionally qualified clinical staff in the NHS Hospitals and Community Health Service (HCHS) workforce England from 1995 to 2021* Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/679938/number-of-professionally-qualified-clinical-staff-nhs-hchs-workforce-england/ (last visited May 27, 2022)