Professionally qualified clinical staff NHS workforce England 2022

There were some 652 thousand full-time equivalent professionally qualified clinical employees in NHS England as of September 2022. 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 2022, 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 2022

Characteristic	Number of employees
2022	652,475
2021	635,946
2020	616,327
2019	589,132
2018	578,435
2017	569,309
2016	561,839
2015	552,708
2014	546,299
2013	537,749
2012	530,165
2011	535,729
2010	535,820
2009	528,743
2008	545,944
2007	528,804
2006	523,637
2005	520,944
2004	505,511
2003	482,452
2002	460,922
2001	437,566
2000	422,106
1999	411,956
1998	404,660
1997	398,904
1996	396,518
1995	389,519

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Release date

March 2023

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

1995 to 2022

Special properties

Full-time equivalents as of September of each year

Supplementary notes

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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