NHS workforce: number of professionally qualified clinical staff HCHS 1995-2019

Published by John Elflein, Oct 7, 2020

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 2019. There were approximately 591.7 thousand full-time equivalent professionally qualified clinical employees in NHS England in 2019.

Number of professionally qualified clinical staff in the NHS Hospitals and Community Health Service (HCHS) workforce England from 1995 to 2019

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September 2020

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

1995 to 2019

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.