§ Mr. Beaumont-Darkasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give the number of nursing staff employed in National Health hospitals in each of the years 1950 to 1978.
§ Sir George Young[pursuant to his reply, 26 July 1979, c. 482]: The information is as follows:
HOSPITAL NURSING AND MIDWIFERY STAFF IN ENGLAND WHOLE TIME EQUIVALENT AT 30 SEPTEMBER Year Nursing staff Midwifery staff 1963 184,345 11,834 1964 188,238 12,331 1965 197,049 12,909 1966 205,388 13,190 1967 212,332 13,733 1968 213,400 14,037 1969 216,253 14,414 1970 223,080 14,270 The figures include qualified nurses, nurse learners and unqualified nursing staff but exclude agency nurses and midwives and nursing cadets.
Information for the years prior to 1963 is not available in a comparable form.