NHS staff
Fact checks including NHS staff levels and NHS pay
How many NHS employees are there?
There are roughly 1.5 million people employed by the NHS but this is a headcount. There are other ways of counting such as Full-Time Equivalents.
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SNP Manifesto: Nurses' pay
Nurses in Scotland get paid more than nurses in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. This is across all pay bands.
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How many nurses are using foodbanks?
Media reports show that at least some individual nurses and trainees have visited food banks. We've not found any evidence on how widespread this is.
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Are NHS workers getting a 4% pay rise?
If they move up pay bands, possibly.
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Are there more nurses on our wards?
We don’t have figures specifically for the total number of nurses on hospital wards.
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Nursing training places
We don’t know yet how changes to NHS bursaries will affect the number of places universities offer.
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A shortage of midwives?
There are more midwives in England than there were in 2010, but the trade union representing them estimates that there’s a shortage, as has the National Audit Office.
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Staffing in A&E
There are roughly 600 more A&E consultants, 1,500 more A&E doctors, and 2,000 more paramedics since 2010.
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The number of doctors and nurses in NHS England
In September 2016 there were the equivalent of 9,000 more doctors working full-time for NHS hospitals and community health services in England than there were in September 2010.
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Fewer doctors and nurses working in mental health
There are fewer nurses and doctors specialising in mental health now than in 2010.
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