Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 114168

General Practitioners and Nurses

Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 9 March 2026

Question

Lee Anderson

Reform UKAshfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the total percentage of (a) nurses and (b) General Practitioners in the NHS who were trained overseas.

Answer

Karin Smyth
NHS England publishes monthly Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England which includes data on the self-reported nationality of National Health Service staff, which may not be the same as the country which they trained in but...

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