Question follow-through · 1577

Doctors and Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) nurses and (b) doctors were employed by the NHS in (i) May 2010 and (ii) the most recent month for which data is available.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 24 Jul 2024
Target answer date: 26 Jul 2024
Answer: 29 Jul 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

24 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) nurses and (b) doctors were employed by the NHS in (i) May 2010 and (ii) the most recent month for which data is available.
26 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jul 2024
Answer published
The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent nurses, including health visitors, and doctors employed by National Health Service trusts and other core organisations in England, as of May 2010 and May 2024: May 2010May 2024Nurses280,950356,5...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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