• Number of nurses in the NHS HCHS workforce 1995-2020

This statistic shows the number of nurses including health visitors, midwives and ambulance staff in the National Health Service (NHS) Hospitals and Community Health Services (HCHS) in England from 1995 to 2020. As of September 2020, there were 385,476 nurses, midwives and ambulance staff in NHS HCHS.

Number of nurses including health visitors, midwives and ambulance staff in the NHS Hospitals and Community Health Service (HCHS) workforce England from 1995 to 2020

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Release date

February 2021

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

Septermber 30, 1995 to Septermber 30, 2020

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information for data from September 2009 to September 2017:
- 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.