NHS HCHS workforce by staff group England 2024

As of February 2024, the NHS in England employed a total of 1.5 million staff members (headcount: counting each individual staff member), including 149 thousand HCHS doctors. This makes it the largest employer in England. In terms of staff groups, nurses (and health visitors) represented the biggest number, followed by support to doctors, nurses and midwives. This statistic shows the Headcount of the National Health Service (NHS) Hospitals and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce in England as of February 2024, by staff group.

Total headcount of the NHS Hospitals and Community Health Service (HCHS) workforce in England as of February 2024, by staff group

Characteristic	Number of employees
Total	1,504,114
HCHS doctors	149,992
Consultant	61,138
Associate Specialist	2,760
Specialty Doctor	10,016
Staff Grade	374
Specialty Registrar	36,126
Core Training	22,389
Foundation Doctor Year 2	6,963
Foundation Doctor Year 1	7,660
Hospital Practitioner / Clinical Assistant	1,776
Other and Local HCHS Doctor Grades	1,280
Nurses & health visitors	391,570
Midwives	28,658
Ambulance staff	21,202
Scientific, therapeutic & technical staff	193,610
Support to doctors, nurses & midwives	347,932
Support to ambulance staff	29,374
Support to ST&T staff	96,626
Central functions	123,478
Hotel, property & estates	82,488
Senior managers	14,127
Managers	27,311
Other staff or those with unknown classification	555

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Release date

May 2024

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Region

Europe, United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

February 2024

Supplementary notes

HCHS doctors include: Consultant, Associate Specialist, Specialty Doctor, Staff Grade, Specialty Registrar, Core Training, Foundation Doctor Year 2, Foundation Doctor Year 1, Hospital Practitioner / Clinical Assistant, and Other and Local HCHS Doctor Grades.
Headcount totals are not FTE and are unlikely to equal the sum of components due to some staff working in more than one role.
Full Time Equivalent (FTE) refers to the proportion of full time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours, 0.5 that they worked half time.
These data relate to the HCHS workforce directly employed in NHS Trusts and other core organizations who are paid.

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