Mr. Bernard Gloster:

In the category of medical and dental, which includes consultants, registrars, senior house officers, SHOs, interns, medical and dentists, there were 10,857 at the end of December 2019. By September 2023 ,that had reached 13,490. The other clinical component is obviously nursing and midwifery, which was 38,209 at the end of 2019 and has now grown to 45,017 in September 2023. Health and social care professionals, that is, physios, pharmacy and so on who are clinical or quasi-clinical, have grown from 16,769-----