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<p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics.
These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs)
in England, but not staff working in primary care or in general practice surgeries,
local authorities or other providers. The information requested as of 15 June 2022
is not currently held. However, as of December 2021, there were 642,560 full-time
equivalent (FTE) professionally qualified clinical staff working in National Health
Service trusts and CCGs. This includes 127,959 doctors and 339,942 nurses, midwives
and health visitors.</p><p>The following table shows the FTE number and proportion
of professionally qualified clinical staff by self-reported nationality as at December
2021. Nationality does not imply that workers were trained or previously worked overseas.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Staff
group</p></td><td><p>Total FTE</p></td><td><p>Number of staff with non-United Kingdom
nationalities</p></td><td><p>Proportion of staff with non-UK nationalities</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Professionally
qualified clinical staff</p></td><td><p>642,560</p></td><td><p>133,848</p></td><td><p>20.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Including:</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ambulance staff</p></td><td><p>18,042</p></td><td><p>1,199</p></td><td><p>6.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HCHS
doctors</p></td><td><p>127,959</p></td><td><p>40,660</p></td><td><p>31.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scientific,
therapeutic and technical staff</p></td><td><p>156,617</p></td><td><p>17,708</p></td><td><p>11.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nurses,
midwives and health visitors</p></td><td><p>339,942</p></td><td><p>74,281</p></td><td><p>21.9%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source:
NHS Digital Workforce Statistics</p><p>NHS Digital publishes quarterly vacancy data
collected by NHS England and NHS Improvement for NHS hospital trusts for three staff
groups: doctors, registered nurses and ‘other staff’. The following table shows the
number of FTE nursing vacancies and medical vacancies as of March 2022. Many of the
vacancies will be filled by bank and agency staff.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Nursing</p></td><td><p>38,972</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Medical</p></td><td><p>8,016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other
staff</p></td><td><p>58,867</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total workforce</p></td><td><p>105,855</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source:
NHS Digital Vacancy Statistics</p>
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