Number of doctors employed in the NHS in England 2004-2022

There were over 128 thousand National Health Service (NHS) doctors in England in 2022. The number of doctors employed in the NHS has experienced some fluctuations during the provided time interval, with the number of doctors peaking at approximately 125.6 thousand in 2008. Specialty breakdown in the UK The most common specialty of doctors across the United Kingdom overall is medicine, with over a quarter of all doctors falling under this category. 18 percent of doctor’s specialty was in surgery and then anesthetics and intensive care medicine accounted for 13 percent of doctors in the UK.Diversity among doctors In 2019, 8.9 percent of the licensed doctors in the UK came from the European Economic Area (EEA). The share of EEA graduates in the UK doctor’s workforce has been decreasing since 2014 when over ten percent of the workforce was made up of graduates from the rest of Europe. Furthermore, over a quarter of doctors in the UK in 2019 came from outside the UK and EEA.

2022年，英格兰国家医疗服务体系（NHS）拥有超过12.8万名医生。在此时间段内，NHS雇佣的医生数量经历了某些波动，医生人数在2008年达到约12.56万人的峰值。就英国而言，医生的专科分布情况如下：总体而言，最常见的专科为内科，超过四分之一的医生属于该类别。18%的医生从事外科，随后麻醉与重症医学领域占据了英国医生总数的13%。在医生群体中的多样性方面，2019年，英国注册医生中有8.9%来自欧洲经济区（EEA）。自2014年起，EEA毕业生的比例在英国医生队伍中一直在下降，当时超过百分之十的劳动力由来自欧洲其他地区的毕业生组成。此外，2019年英国医生中有超过四分之一来自英国和EEA之外。