Publication, Part of NHS workforce statistics

NHS Workforce Statistics - February 2018

Official statistics

Publication Date:: 22 May 2018
Geographic Coverage:: England
Geographical Granularity:: Ambulance Trusts, Care Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Community health services, Health Education England Region, Hospital and Community Health Services, Hospital Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, Primary Care Organisations, Primary Care Trusts, Regional health body, Regions
Date Range:: 30 Sep 2009 to 28 Feb 2018

Summary

This report shows monthly numbers of NHS Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) staff groups working in Trusts and CCGs in England (excluding primary care staff). Data is available as headcount and full-time equivalents.

This data is an accurate summary of the validated data extracted from the NHS's HR and Payroll system.

In addition to the regular monthly reports there are a series of quarterly reports (first published on 26 July 2016 looking at the data for March 2016) which include statistics on staff in Trusts and CCGs and information for NHS Support Organisations and Central Bodies.

The quarterly analysis will be published each; September (showing June statistics) December (showing September statistics) March (showing December statistics) June (showing March statistics).

Note: From March 2017 these quarterly reports will also include statistics on; i) Bank staff employed directly by trusts and paid through the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) pay and human resources system (as covered by our consultation on NHS workforce statistics). They are exploratory and experimental statistics. ii) The nationality of staff (previously published every six months) showing quarterly figures from September 2015 onwards.

CSV data is available for every month back to September 2009 within the March 2016 report. Due to their size they are broken down into several files. A link to the March 2016 data is given in the 'Related Links' section below.

Additional healthcare workforce data relating to GPs and Independent Sector workforce are also available; links to this data are available below.

We welcome feedback on the methodology and tables within this publication. Please email us with your comments and suggestions, clearly stating Monthly HCHS Workforce as the subject heading, via [email protected] or 0300 303 5678

Key Facts

In February 2018:

• The headcount was 1,205,814 in February 2018. This is 135 (0.0 per cent) less than the previous month (1,205,949) and 20,038 (1.7 per cent) more than in February 2017 (1,185,776).

• The full time equivalent (FTE) total was 1,064,589 in February 2018. This is 221 (0.0 per cent) less than the previous month (1,064,810) and 18,164 (1.7 per cent) more than in February 2017 (1,046,425).

• Professionally qualified staff make up over half (54.0 per cent) of the HCHS workforce (based on FTE).