Nearly half of NHS staff are not clinically qualified

However, doctor numbers are up by 19%, “despite Brexit”

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Part II of our report into the state of our health service

In Part I of this two-part report on NHS staffing, we showed overall NHS staffing numbers across the four nations of the UK, excluding GPs and primary care providers. We exploded the myth still repeated by Remainer-Rejoiners that Brexit would result in huge numbers leaving the UK's healthcare sector.

Today we reveal the extent of the bloated bureaucracy which has been allowed to build up around front-line medical staff. We also show the increase in doctor numbers since the United Kingdom left the European Union. This is despite the fact we were warned that voting Leave would lead to a reduction.

A Brexit Facts4EU.Org Two-Parter

Part I – Total numbers of NHS employees declared, excluding GPs and primary care workers
Part II – Massive growth in number of non patient-facing staff (This report)

Health warning : The classifications from the Office for National Statistics – based on what they obtained from the devolved administrations - are so poor that we went to NHS England for some clarity.

NHS non-front-line staffing numbers – our best estimates based on the reported figures

Because of our limited resources we have not been able to look separately at the devolved NHS administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but we doubt the trends we show below will be very different.

England and the three devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each report numbers in different ways. This makes it impossible to give definitive figures for the proportion of what most people would NOT consider to be ‘front-line healthcare workers’.

Who is included in the figures from NHS England?

This group includes all NHS England Hospital & Community Health Service (HCHS) doctors, qualified nurses and health visitors, midwives, qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical staff and qualified ambulance staff.

These DO NOT include the ranks of those working for contractors such as CAPITA who provide services to NHS Trusts.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

NHS England non-front-line staffing numbers from Jan 2020 to Dec 2023

(The UK formally exited the EU on 31 Jan 2020.)

1. All NHS Hospital & Community Health Service (HCHS) staff

Jan 2020 : 1,275,883
Dec 2023 : 1,488,207 - an increase of 212,324 (+16.6%)

[Source : NHS England data, accessed 09 Mar 2024.]

2. Doctors

Jan 2020 : 125,118
Dec 2023 : 148,994 - an increase of 23,876 (+19.1%)

[Source : NHS England data, accessed 09 Mar 2024.]

To summarise, NHS staffing numbers increased by 212,000 in the last four years, and doctor numbers went up by 24,000.

EU doctors

Following a review early last year, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) concluded in the summer that the current provisions for EU doctors will remain in place ‘for a temporary period of five years’, meaning EU qualified healthcare professionals can continue to register with their regulator without further assessment.

As part of ‘Project Fear’ it was claimed by Remainers that doctors from the EU would flood out of the country if we voted to Leave. This simply hasn’t happened and indeed additional doctors from the EU continue to come each year.

Observations

So why is the NHS performing so badly?

It is not our job to report on the failings of the NHS but we must say it is disturbing that when overall staff numbers are increasing each year – including the numbers of doctors and nurses – then attention must focus on poor management, a bloated bureaucracy, and poor supervision.

The NHS England waiting list stands at 7.8 million, and this does not include the other three nations of the United Kingdom. This is a simply shocking state of affairs.

Ambulance waiting times as well as Accident and Emergency waiting times are now a national disgrace. It must be questioned whether we will ever have in our lifetimes a government capable of sorting out this mess.

Questions :-

When will the Government move to increase number of placements for British students wishing to become doctors, instead of importing them from abroad?
Same question for nurses
When will the Government act to stop the requirement for British nurses to do an expensive degree course?

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Reader Comments 9

1. Sparky , Thursday, March 14, 2024, 05:33:

Quoting project fear is just gaslighting. As stated in this piece there has been measures to try to retain doctors from the EU but despite this there has been a decline in the number of doctors from the EU.
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Look at the HOC Library, NHS staff from overseas, statistics. In recent years the number of doctors from the EU has declined whilst there has been a significant increase in doctors from Asia and Africa.
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The NHS needs strategic planning, not ben used as a political football. The UK should have bee trading doctors 10 or 20 years ago, it takes 8 to 10 years to train as a doctor in the UK. Once trained we need a well managed NHS and measures to retain UK doctors in the UK. We have an aging population which has been known for years.

2. Ashley Great Britain , Thursday, March 14, 2024, 07:09:

1 sparky.
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Your first paragraph isn't correct.
More EU doctors are here now then before we left the EU.
What does gaslighting mean?
Why can't project fear be quoted?
The establishment said there would be an exodus of qualified doctors and nurses but there hasn't been. None of project fears prophecies have come true.
Which proves they were lies to try and sway the public to vote remain for the benefit of the establishment.

3. Have You Wondered , Thursday, March 14, 2024, 08:20:

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Sparky says "Look at the HOC Library, NHS staff from overseas, statistics. In recent years the number of doctors from the EU has declined "
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F4EU say "This simply hasn’t happened and indeed additional doctors from the EU continue to come each year."
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Would someone like to clarify please?
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4. Have You Wondered , Thursday, March 14, 2024, 08:22:

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I really don't like statistics. I prefer to see the reality. In the health scenario - the EU seems to be on equal footings - here's some headlines.
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belgium records higher rate of medical mistakes during hospital stays.
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number of foreign doctors in belgium has doubled
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Staff shortages: Belgium, like many other EU countries, struggles with a medical staff shortage. A recent report by Eurostat found the country had the second-lowest proportion of physicians in the EU in 2021 (324.8 for every 100,000 inhabitants), behind only France.
dont get sick greece islands tourists critically short doctors medical system deaths
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news science 1729330 eu drug shortage medicines ema antibiotics
news towards better prevention medicine shortages eu
there is a major concern about drug shortages says belgian health minister
health careb pharma doctors call for tougher eu laws to prevent future drug shortages
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eus ongoing antibiotics shortage not a major event ema says
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save europes health care systems from collapse epsu urges
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healthcare staff on verge of collapse survey shows
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Knee operations for patients over 50 to be limited in Belgium
knee operations for patients over 50 to be limited in belgium
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who serious concern over belgiums high rates of out of pocket health spending
dying in silence summer staff shortages push belgian hospitals to the brink
france doctors europe too far too old too few
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gps push for an end to the sick bill
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"...shortage of GPs will only get worse in the coming years."
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"Shortage of nursing staff in EU health systems"
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epsu article epsu analysis confirmed europe has severe shortage health care professionals
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And all because of Brexit !
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5. Captain Thunderbolt , Thursday, March 14, 2024, 12:56:

1. Sparky , Thursday, March 14, 2024, 05:33:
Quoting project fear is just gaslighting.
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You quoted a number of leave supporters in your quest to put scornful delight in your own posts. Is that not called hypocrisy!

6. Sparky , Thursday, March 14, 2024, 13:35:

2 AGB.
Look up: NHS staff from overseas house of commons library. Report from Nov 2023, interesting reading.
Gaslighting: manipulation, brainwashing.
Project fear: Clever labelling by Dominic Cummings led VoteLeave campaign, but could mean anything said about Brexit. Interesting that the OBR produced a report for the budget, look up OBR march 24 economic and fiscal outlook. Within the report the OBR have maintained their view on the economic impact of Brexit "assume that the resulting reduction in the trade intensity of GDP will lead to a 4 per cent reduction in the potential productivity of the UK economy".
5 CT. No delight in observing the harm being done to the UK as a result of Brexit. Fascinating viewing on Ch4 "the rise and fall of Boris Johnson". amazing that people followed the man.

7. Gazzablack , Thursday, March 14, 2024, 16:59:

So the GDP growth in the UK in January was 0.2%
Meanwhile, Germany have lowered their forecasts for GDP growth for the entirety of 2024, to 0.2%
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So Germany is predicting that it will only grow in a whole year, the same as the UK did in a single month.
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I see Sparkless is clinging to the OBR 4% reduction delusion
Well In their March 2023 EFO the OBR stated that their "assumption about the impact of Brexit on the UK's trade intensity is broadly on track" and that as a result they would not adjust their view that productivity would be 4% lower by 2035.
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And then the ONS revised UK GDP up 1.8%, meaning that trade intensity is significantly higher than being "broadly on track" with their forecasts,, and thus their forecasts need to go directly into the bin.

8. NH , Thursday, March 14, 2024, 18:20:

6. Sparky, "Within the report the OBR have maintained their view on the economic impact of Brexit"
At the end of 2023 the OBR admitted all it's forecast were incorrect, GDP, Inflation, Borrowing, Net Debt etc. Their Mar 2021 forecasts were incorrect so they changed them, their Oct 2021 forecasts were incorrect so they changed them, their Mar 2022 forecasts were incorrect so they changed them, their Nov 2022 forecasts were incorrect so they changed them, their Mar 2023 forecasts were incorrect so they changed them. Their excuse is "things changed". So as long as nothing changes in the next 10 years they expect their Brexit forecast to be correct. No conflicts, natural disasters political policy changes, world changes, demographic changes etc.
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6. Sparky, "reduction in the trade intensity of GDP"
Remain organisations have now stopped talking about exports, which they previously said would collapse, and they have now switched to talking about "Trade Intensity". According to remainers if you have world leading domestic companies supplying home markets this is now a bad thing. If you import everything and produce nothing this is a good thing, apart from the fact you will be bankrupt within a month.
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The only problem for the "New Remain Theory" is the USA has just committed $369 Billion to reduce their Trade Intensity. The EU wants to commit similar amounts to reduce their Trade Intensity with non EU countries and is also considering protectionism to reduce non EU Trade Intensity. Japan has also committed large spending to reduce it's Trade Intensity and China has too. It seems that the rest of the world does not agree with the New Remain Theory.

9. NH , Thursday, March 14, 2024, 18:43:

6. Sparky, "will lead to a 4 per cent reduction in the potential productivity of the UK economy"
The main problem with the OBR's forecast is the UK's productivity declined while we were in the EU. The UK had a very constant growth in productivity until the consequences of large scale immigration took over. Then our productivity flat lined and has never recovered. Many employers opted for using low cost labour rather than taking the risk of investing in automation and information technology. A visible example of this is before we had large scale immigration there was a huge increase in the number of automatic car wash machines which required no permanent labour. With the availability of endless cheap labour these were replaced with buckets and sponges making the UK look like a third world country.
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If the OBR want to prove "the superiority of EU membership" they don't need to do forecasts they can look at proven facts. Maybe they can explain why the EU's growth in productivity over the last 30 years is less than half that of the USA's (EU's own figures). Maybe they could compare the EU's or UK's performance (when in the EU) with the rest of the world. Unfortunately no Remain Organisation is ever going to want to look at factual historic information even though a huge amount of it is widely available.

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