NHS Workforce Statistics for Bank Staff Employed by NHS Trusts

UK National Health Service statistics on bank staff employed directly by NHS trusts and paid through the NHS Electronic Staff Record system. The dataset is provided by NHS Digital and was last updated in July 2026. It is available in Excel format under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing NHS bank staff workforce composition based on employment statistics
• Modeling payroll and staffing costs for NHS trusts based on ESR data
• Tracking trends in flexible healthcare employment within the UK public sector

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative NHS Digital organization
• Last updated in July 2026, suggesting relatively recent figures

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

NHS Digital

Collection Method

Collected via the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) pay and human resources system

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:45.568892

Geography

United Kingdom (specifically NHS trusts in England)