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NHS: Staff

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN HL14441, tabled on 12 March 2019

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many NHS staff were killed at work in each of the last ten years for which records are available; and what were the reasons for those deaths.

Answered on

26 March 2019

Individual trusts are responsible for maintaining such records at a local level.

The Health and Safety Executive is responsible for maintaining national records of people killed at work. However, these statistics do not separately identify whether individuals are National Health Service staff.