The number of staff leaving the NHS in the South East is among the lowest in more than a decade.
Retention schemes have helped reduce the number leaving the health service to one of its lowest levels in more than a decade.
In the South East, 10.6 per cent of workers left the NHS in the 12 months up to September 2024, compared to 11.2 per cent of workers in the same period up to September 2023 and 13.4 per cent in the same period up to September 2022.
The South East performance is consistent with retention across the NHS nationally, where one in 10 (10.1 per cent) workers left the NHS in the 12 months up to September 2024.
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This is nearly 21,300 fewer than in the same period up to September 2022 when one in eight (12.5 per cent) left the health service.
Louise Hall, NHS England in the South East’s director of workforce and training and education, said: "It is fantastic to see the impact of the efforts to improve the working environment for NHS staff in the South East, with fewer staff leaving the health service in the last year across the region.
"We know that the NHS is nothing without its colleagues, and The People Promise exemplar programme shows what is possible when you listen to staff and work with them to make changes that improve their lives."
The fall in the number of leavers has been supported by an initial two-year programme, ‘The People Promise’ aimed at finding new ways to improve retention in the NHS - encouraging action by staff, for staff, around flexible working, leadership and culture.
