NHS Workforce Statistics for Lancashire and South Cumbria

Data for May 2023

Author

Maria Garcia

Published

September 28, 2023

Summary

This report shows monthly numbers of NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) staff working in NHS Trusts and other core organisations in Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Key facts

All NHS Hospital & Community Health Service (HCHS) staff

38,605 FTE in May 2023

Information

Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) is a standardised measure of the workload of an employed person and allows for the total workforce workload to be expressed in an equivalent number of full-time staff. 1.0 FTE equates to full-time work of 37.5 hours per week.

Table

The table below shows the total number of doctors and nurses for each organisation within Lancashire and South Cumbria. We can see that the organisation with the most midwives is the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust with 253 staff.