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<p>The Department does not hold information on the number of nurses recruited by the
National Health Service in England from the United Kingdom and other EU member states
and outside the European Union in each of the last five years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><p>It is the responsibility of each NHS organisation to determine how many nurses
it employs and from where these nurses are recruited.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The
Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), holds data on the nationality of
staff working in the NHS as at 30 September 2013, the latest published data available.
September data for the years 2009 to 2014 inclusive will be published, for the first
time, by the HSCIC on 23 January.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The information as
at September 2013 is set out in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td
colspan="2"><p>Hospital and Community Health services: Qualified nursing, midwifery
and health visiting staff, by nationality</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>
</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>Headcount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>British</p></td><td><p>269,390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other
EU</p></td><td><p>12,347</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rest of the World</p></td><td><p>27,792</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>38,415</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>347,944</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><em>Notes: </em></p><p> </p><p>These statistics relate to the contracted positions
within English NHS organisations and may include those where the person assigned to
the position is temporarily absent, for example on maternity leave.</p><p> </p><p><em>Data
Quality: </em></p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that well over 100,000 staff do not
have a specified nationality in the whole data set which included all staff so the
figures above do not show the exact numbers of each nationality, but rather an indication
of the numbers with known nationalities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> Health
and Social Care Information Centre, Provisional NHS Hospital and Community Health
Service (HCHS) monthly workforce statistics.</p>
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