Stephen Hepburn – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Hepburn on 2016-01-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS doctors were employed in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 2005.

Ben Gummer

The number of hospital and community health services doctors employed in the National Health Service for South Tyneside and the North East region since 2005 is in the attached table. The figures are taken from the NHS annual workforce statistics published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

Figures are only available for recognised NHS geography and therefore no information has been provided for Jarrow constituency.

The provision of health services in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter so total figures are for England only.