Number of Volunteers in NHS Trusts

Overview

NHS England and Improvement are undertaking this survey to help us gather the latest numbers of volunteers that are supporting, or commissioned by, the NHS. 

The survey will also help us to identify what information is already collected by the system and inform the development of a national data set for volunteering. This survey data and any future data collections will be used to help us to monitor and support the development and growth of volunteering in line with the Long-Term Plan ambitions that will maximise the potential benefits and impacts that volunteers bring.

You may receive this survey through different routes, but we only require one return from each organisation please.

Your contact details and the data will only be used for the purposes of this survey unless you confirm within the survey that you are happy to us to add your details to our contact list to receive further news and updates about NHS England led programmes, and opportunities to support the development of volunteering.  

We intend to publish anonymised aggregated data from this survey on the numbers, but this will not be identifiable.

We also may contact you directly if there is anything you mention in your survey return that we would like to find out more about.

Please do not include any personal or identifiable data in your free text answers.