Douglas Carswell – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Douglas Carswell on 2015-11-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of doctors working in hospitals are from non-UK countries.
Ben Gummer
The Health and Social Care Information Centre collects data on the number of doctors working in National Health Service hospital and community health services in England.
Nationality is a self-reported field within the electronic staff record system and of the 98,894 full time equivalent number of doctors (not including locums) who declared their nationality 25,607 (25.6%) are non-United Kingdom nationals.
