John Pugh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Pugh on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health visitors were employed in each of the last three years.

Mr Philip Dunne

The following table shows the number of full time equivalent health visitors employed in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England in each of the last three years.

Full time equivalent figures are used as this is the most accurate measure of service capacity.

Source: NHS Digital NHS Hospital and Community Health Service monthly workforce statistics