Lord Moonie – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Moonie on 2016-03-01.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many EU nationals work in the NHS in England.

Lord Prior of Brampton

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.