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NHS: Manpower

Volume 481: debated on Tuesday 28 October 2008

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Sir Nicholas Winterton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were employed in the National Health Service in 2007, expressed on (a) headcount and (b) full-time equivalent basis. (230908)

Ann Keen

The number of people employed in the national health service in 2007 is given in the following table.

Number of people

Total employed staff in 2007

1,331,109

Total employed staff in 2007 (full-time equivalent)

1,089,436