Ambulance Services: Recruitment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve uptake for jobs in the ambulance service.
Answered by Karin Smyth
As of March 2025, there were over 21,900 full time equivalent ambulance staff in National Health Service trusts and other core organisations in England, representing an increase of over 1,900, or 9.6%, compared to the previous year.
We will publish a refreshed workforce plan for staff across the NHS, including ambulance services, to deliver the transformed health service we will build over the next decade, to ensure the NHS has the right people, in the right places, with the right skills to deliver the care patients need when they need it.
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