Seema Malhotra – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Seema Malhotra on 2015-11-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the average cost to the NHS of employing a (a) nurse, (b) midwife and (c) doctor; and what forecast he has made of that cost in each year from 2016-17 to 2019-20.
Alistair Burt
Information is available for 2014/15 and is set out in the following table:
|
Estimated Average Cost per Full-Time Equivalent |
|
|
Qualified nurses, midwives and health visitors |
£42,100 |
|
Midwives |
£45,900 |
|
All hospital and community health services doctors |
£96,200 |
Notes:
Separate figures for qualified nurses are not available. Costs include employer national insurance and pension contributions but not other costs such as recruitment and training (which is not collected centrally).
Source: Department of Health’s Headline HCHS Pay bill Metrics, which are based primarily on earnings statistics published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, supplemented by employer pension and national insurance contributions estimates informed by unpublished and unvalidated data from the Electronic Staff Record Data Warehouse.
Future costs will depend on the outcome of the Spending Review and pay recommendations of the independent Pay Review Bodies.
