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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
NHS: Ethnic Groups (22 July 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) nurses and (b) doctors there were in the NHS, by ethnicity, in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

Answer

NHS Digital publishes bi-annual statistics on diversity and inclusion as part of its NHS Digital Hospital and Community Health Service Workforce Statistics bi-annual publication. The following tables show the number of doctors and nurses and health visitors broken down by ethnicity, as at September each year for the last four years, plus latest data this year, as at March 2020 is the latest available data on ethnicity. Data is provided as at September each year to account for changes in the recruitment cycle.

Doctors

September 2016

September 2017

September 2018

September 2019

March 2020

Asian or Asian British

29,369

30,398

31,565

33,707

34,896

Black or Black British

3,966

4,256

4,664

5,443

5,960

Chinese

2,572

2,684

2,811

2,941

2,946

Mixed

3,056

3,271

3,431

3,733

3,988

White

60,884

61,809

61,281

61,958

62,359

Any Other Ethnic Group

4,054

4,259

4,477

5,029

5,367

Discontinued codes

38

36

35

31

30

Not Stated

6,753

6,931

7,774

8,458

8,746

Unknown

2,552

2,783

2,827

3,085

2,613

Total

113,244

116,427

118,865

124,385

126,905

Nurses and Health Visitors

September 2016

September 2017

September 2018

September 2019

March 2020

Asian or Asian British

25,829

27,054

28,949

32,389

35,709

Black or Black British

23,505

24,175

25,115

26,909

28,632

Chinese

1,197

1,129

1,117

1,110

1,112

Mixed

4,047

4,087

4,302

4,610

4,829

White

242,702

240,616

238,367

238,150

239,540

Any Other Ethnic Group

9,513

10,118

11,110

13,200

14,531

Discontinued codes

191

172

158

122

110

Not Stated

10,993

10,679

10,605

11,200

11,547

Unknown

2,137

1,994

2,644

2,799

3,130

Total

320,114

320,024

322,367

330,489

339,140


Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
1 September 2020

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