NHS England: Staff
Commons · Question 265 · Tabled 13 May 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 21 May 2026
Question
Asked by Helen Morgan
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS England employees there (a) are and (b) were on 13 March 2025; and what estimate he has made of the number of NHS England employees there will be following the first round of the volun
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 21 May 2026
There were 17,517 full-time equivalent posts within NHS England at the end of March 2025, 2,484 of which were vacant. At the end of April 2026, there were 13,940 staff in post in NHS England. NHS England ran a voluntary redundancy scheme in December 2025 ...