Written Answers from the Department of Health and Social Care – Number of additional non-medical staff hired since 2019

This question reveals a large build up in staff over the last three years. I will ask for more detail of who they are and what they are doing:

The Department of Health and Social Care has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (123838):

Question:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional non-medical staff have been recruited to the NHS since the end of 2019. (123838)

Tabled on: 16 January 2023

Answer:
Will Quince:

The following table shows the increase in number of full-time equivalent non-medical staff, by staff group, working in National Health Service trusts and commissioning bodies from the end of 2019 to the latest month that the data is available.

Staff group	December 2019	October 2022	Change
Non-medical professionally qualified clinical staff	479,815	527,280	47,465 (9.9%)
Support to clinical staff	341,992	385,084	43,092 (12.6%)
NHS infrastructure support staff	180,540	205,321	24,781 (13.7%)
Total non-medical staff	1,002,347	1,117,685	115,338 (11.5%)

The answer was submitted on 23 Jan 2023 at 17:57.