Lord Roberts of Llandudno – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Roberts of Llandudno on 2016-06-09.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many overseas citizens work in the UK in (1) hospitals, and (2) care homes.
Lord Prior of Brampton
The number of overseas citizens working in the United Kingdom in hospitals and care homes is not collected centrally.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) publishes data on the number of staff working in National Health Service hospital and community health services in England. The HSCIC also publishes data on the nationality of NHS staff, which is a self-reported field within the NHS human resources and payroll system, the electronic staff record (ESR). The nationality information entered by an individual employee onto ESR may reflect their cultural heritage rather than their country of birth.
From the 1,151,138 headcount number of staff working in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups as at September 2015, 1,056,773 have self-declared their nationality. Of these, 217,063 (21%) have declared as having nationalities other than British.
Skills for Care, the partner in the Sector Skills Council for social care, collects information on the nationality of the adult social care workforce in England.
Skills for Care estimates that there were on average 135,000 residential care job roles filled by non-British adult social care workers in England in 2015.
