Speeches

Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many junior doctors worked in the NHS in London in each year since 2006.

Ben Gummer

The number of full time equivalent NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) doctors in training and equivalents1 in London, as at 30 September each year between 2006 and 2014 and at 30 June 20152 is shown in the following table.

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

10,360

10,443

10,916

11,645

11,971

12,083

12,187

12,455

12,584

12,288

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre Medical and Dental Workforce Census.

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Provisional NHS HCHS Monthly Workforce Statistics.

Notes:

1 Doctors in training and equivalents refers to the Registrar group, Senior House Officer, Foundation Year 2, House Officer & Foundation Programme Year 1, other doctors in training and other staff at these grades that do not hold an educationally approved training post.

2 June 2015 data is the latest data available. This is sourced from the NHS HCHS Monthly Workforce Statistics.