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<p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics
for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning
groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries,
local authorities or other providers.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the
full time equivalent (FTE) figures of health visitors in England, London and the London
Borough of Lewisham as at 30 September in the specified years and the latest available
data.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>Of
which: London</p></td><td><p>Of which: London Borough of Lewisham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>8,959</p></td><td><p>1,308</p></td><td><p>68</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>8,644</p></td><td><p>1,276</p></td><td><p>66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>8,100</p></td><td><p>1,125</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>7,849</p></td><td><p>1,074</p></td><td><p>39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>7,802</p></td><td><p>1,056</p></td><td><p>43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>7,687</p></td><td><p>1,118</p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>8,304</p></td><td><p>1,193</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>9,162</p></td><td><p>1,411</p></td><td><p>58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>10,236</p></td><td><p>1,639</p></td><td><p>62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>9,521</p></td><td><p>1,556</p></td><td><p>67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>8,497</p></td><td><p>1,307</p></td><td><p>66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31
July 2018</p></td><td><p>7,852</p></td><td><p>1,259</p></td><td><p>58</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source:
NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital</p><p> </p><p>Due to changes in
the data collection and processing methodology, figures for 2007 and 2008 are not
directly comparable to figures from September 2009 onwards.</p><p> </p><p>Since September
2015 NHS Digital has been collecting Independent Healthcare Provider Workforce statistics.
These statistics are collected biannually and published as experimental statistics.
The following table shows the FTE figures of health visitors employed by Independent
Healthcare Providers in England, as at 30 September each year since 2015 and the latest
data available:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>31
March 2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>957</p></td><td><p>1,132</p></td><td><p>1,240</p></td><td><p>1,187</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source:
Independent Healthcare Provider Workforce Statistics, England, March 2018, NHS Digital</p><p>
</p><p>Information is not held centrally on the number of health visitors in London
and the London Borough of Lewisham from independent healthcare providers.</p><p> </p><p>As
health visitors are employed by a range of organisations, including National Health
Service trusts, CCGs, local authorities and private providers, current data collections
do not cover the complete range of these organisations. Consequently, it is not possible
to provide accurate data on the total size of the health visitor workforce.</p>
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