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Physiotherapy: Private Sector

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN HL61, tabled on 19 December 2019

To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of physiotherapists employed in the private sector.

Answered on

7 January 2020

NHS Digital publishes data biannually on staff in some independent sector healthcare organisations in England, mainly data from large organisations. The latest available data as at March 2019, shows that there are 2,270 full time equivalent (FTE) physiotherapists in 56 independent sector organisations which provided data. The data presented for the independent healthcare provider workforce does not represent the entire workforce employed across the whole of this sector and does not only show the staff providing National Health Service-commissioned services. These statistics relate to the workforce directly employed in a range of independent healthcare provider organisations in England and may include staff on maternity leave and career breaks.

Independent healthcare provider workforce: qualified staff working within the care setting 'physiotherapy' as at 31 March 2019, experimental statistics.

All qualified staff working within the care setting 'physiotherapy'

2,270

Consultant therapist/scientist in physiotherapy

-

Manager in physiotherapy

178

Therapist in physiotherapy

2,080

Instructor/teacher in physiotherapy

9

Tutor in physiotherapy

3