Foreign staff figures much lower than average
Statistics from NHS Digital show Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust employed 350 staff from outside the UK as of June 30.
It’s the equivalent to 8.6 per cent of all the staff at the trust who declared their nationality.
Of them, 69 were from the EU or a ‘European economic area’, and a further 281 were from the rest of the world.
The ratio of foreign-to-UK staff at the Gawber Road site was low compared to other trusts across the country.
Those figures show the average percentage of staff being non-UK nationals stood at 21.5.
These figures were based on the total head count of staff working at the trust, rather than the equivalent full-time employees.
"The figures show just how ‘much our severely understaffed NHS relies on dedicated people from all over the world.
The stark reality is that the NHS just doesn’t have enough staff, putting patients’ safety at risk by affecting the care that overstretched staff can provide.
With vacancies at an all-time high across health and care services - 132,000 in trusts in England alone - we desperately need a long-term, fully-funded workforce plan for the NHS from the government to invest in growing the staff we recruit from within the UK, alongside valued recruits from abroad.”
As of June, there were 141 doctors and 110 nurses from outside of the UK working at Barnsley Hospital.
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