Speeches

Catherine West – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Catherine West on 2016-05-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many junior doctors were employed by the NHS in (a) London and (b) England in each of the last five years.

Ben Gummer

The information is shown in the following table:

Doctors in Training as at 30 September between 2011 and 2015 in England and London.

Year

England

London

2011

50,059

11,684

2012

50,318

11,902

2013

51,013

11,985

2014

51,686

12,136

2015

51,308

11,830

Source: Health & Social Care Information Centre

Notes: The figures include Specialty Registrars, Core Medical Training, Core Dental Training, Foundation Doctor Years 1 and 2.