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Radiotherapy: Termination of Employment (24 January 2022)

NHS Digital collects Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers. Data on the National Health Service workforce is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record, the human resources and payroll system for the NHS.

During the period June 2020 to June 2021, 331 staff working in the care setting of therapeutic radiology left the NHS, of which 34 people retired and 110 people resigned. In the medical specialty of clinical oncology 166 people left the NHS, of which 14 people retired and 26 people resigned. Data on those working in diagnostic radiography is not collected.