NHS England, formerly NHS Digital, publishes data quarterly on staff who leave active service in National Health Service trusts. This will include people moving to social care, primary care and private providers. The following table shows the leaver rates and the number of nurses leaving the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register and doctors who no longer hold a licence to practice on the General Medical Council register in the United Kingdom. This is a better measure for understanding numbers leaving the healthcare profession.<\/p>
Period<\/p><\/td> | Doctors<\/p><\/td> | Nurses<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2018<\/p><\/td> | 9,450 (3.8%)<\/p><\/td> | 27,552 (4.2%)<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2019<\/p><\/td> | 9,667 (3.7%)<\/p><\/td> | 25,801 (3.9%)<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2020<\/p><\/td> | 6,894 (2.5%)<\/p><\/td> | 22,508 (3.3%)<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2021<\/p><\/td> | 9,825 (3.5%)<\/p><\/td> | 24,480 (3.5%)<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2022<\/p><\/td> | N.A<\/p><\/td> | 25,285 (3.5%)<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> Note: Nursing data is for the year to September whilst Doctors data is for the year to December. Published GMC data does not provide a breakdown by doctor grade. Percentages calculated by the Department. Rates for Nurses have been calculated by dividing number of leavers by the number of registered nurses for the year to September. Rates for Doctors have been calculated by dividing doctors who no longer hold a licence by the number of total licenced doctors.<\/p> No specific assessment has been made. However, the NHS workforce continues to grow. As at December 2022 there were 2,732 (4.3%) more full-time equivalent (FTE) junior doctors, 1,660 (3.2%) more FTE consultants, and 11,086 (3.6%) more FTE nurses in Hospital and Community Health Settings than that the previous year.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4423", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Will Quince"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Colchester"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Will Quince"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2023-03-30", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "previousAnswerVersion" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1604506/answer/previousversion/63540", "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4423", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Will Quince"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Colchester"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Will Quince"} } , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2023-03-30T14:22:29.377Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2023-03-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Health Professions: Termination of Employment"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on how many (a) junior doctors, (b) consultants and (c) nurses have left the healthcare profession in each of the last five years, and whether he has made an assessment of the consequences for his policies of changes in the levels of such staff leaving the profession.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4764", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Bell Ribeiro-Addy"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Streatham"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Bell Ribeiro-Addy"} ], "uin" : "166368"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1301502", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1301502/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " There are no current plans to offer the vaccine to the parents of clinical extremely vulnerable (CEV) children.<\/p> <\/p> In line with current advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), adult members of a household that includes someone who is CEV are prioritised for vaccination according to their own age and clinical risk. They are not prioritised on the basis of sharing a household with someone who is CEV whether this person is an adult or a child. Children under 16 years of age, even if they are CEV, are at low risk of serious morbidity and mortality and given the absence of safety and efficacy data on the vaccine, are not recommended for vaccination.<\/p> <\/p> The JCVI continues to look at the emerging evidence on COVID-19 and will offer further advice if and when evidence is found that vaccinating a particular group, including household members of individuals most at risk from COVID-19, would further reduce overall mortality, morbidity and hospitalisation which is the overarching objective.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4113", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Stratford-on-Avon"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Nadhim Zahawi"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2021-03-17", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2021-03-17T16:31:53.227Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2021-03-10", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Coronavirus: Vaccination"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to prioritise the parents of children who are clinically extremely vulnerable for receipt of the covid-19 vaccine in the event that those parents do not meet the eligibility criteria for receipt of that vaccine under the terms of any other priority cohort for the delivery of that vaccine.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3912", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Richard Fuller"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "North East Bedfordshire"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Richard Fuller"} ], "uin" : "166368"} ], "itemsPerPage" : 10, "page" : 0, "startIndex" : 1, "totalResults" : 2, "type" : ["http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#ListEndpoint", "http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#Page"]} } |