Department of Health written question – answered at on 14 March 2016.
Lord Moonie
Labour
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many EU nationals work in the NHS in England.
Lord Moonie
Labour
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many non-UK, non-EU nationals work in the NHS in England.
Lord Prior of Brampton
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health
The Health and Social Care Information Centre collects data on the number of staff working in National Health Service hospital and community health services in England.
Nationality is a self-reported field within the NHS electronic staff record system. Of those individuals who declared their nationality, 1,050,034 (93.5%) are European Union nationals (this includes 994,693 British nationals and 55,341 other EU nationals). There are a further 73,681 (6.5%) non United Kingdom and non EU nationals.
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