§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will update table 3:14a of the latest "Health and Personal Social Service Statistics for England" by giving data for 1981 to 1984.
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Nursing and midwifery staff: Analysis by occupation and grade—30 September England Whole-time equivalents 1980 1981 1982 1983 All Nursing and Midwifery Staff* Total 364,828 386,654 392,557 393,086 Administrative nursing staff at Regional, Area and District HQs and centrally-based services 2,263 3,261 3,393 4,041 Administrative midwifery staff at Regional, Area and District HQs 124 112 109 200 Blood transfusion service staff 945 970 995 1,144 Hospital nursing staff: Total 308,815 326,587 332,111 329,965 Qualified: Total 151,815 162,186 168,294 171,000 Senior Nurses and above† 7,595 6,669 6,267 5,634 Tutorial nursing staff 3,308 3,567 3,768 4,307 Other registered nurses 83,792 90,467 94,219 95,661 Enrolled nurses 56,496 61,483 64,040 65,398 Learners: Total 71,391 74,395 75,309 72,505 Post-registration student nurses 2,719 2,546 1,991 1,959 Post-enrolment student nurses 1,509 2,188 2,093 1,674 Pre-registration student nurses 46,899 48,484 50,673 50,535 Pupil nurses 20,264 21,176 20,552 18,336 Unqualified: Total 86,232 90,007 88,507 86,460 Other nursing staff‡ 85,718 89,722 88,346 86,391 Nursing cadets 515 285 161 69 Hospital midwifery staff: Total 17,163 17,388 16,792 18,156 Qualified: Total 12,932 12,631 13,028 13,404 Senior Nurses and above† 946 840 791 646 Tutorial midwifery staff 536 506 522 545 Other state certified midwives 11,449 11,284 11,715 12,213 Learners: Student midwives 4,231 4,758 3,764 4,753 Primary health care nursing staff: Total 32,747 34,929 35,653 35,867 Senior Nurses† 1,567 3,035 1,480 1,311 District nursing tutorial staff 61 76 55 47 Health visitors║ 8,761 9,115 9,389 9,613 TB visitors with HV certificate 36 26 26 27 TB visitors without HV certificate 57 59 55 50 District nursing (registered nurses)¶ 9,894 10,150 10,406 10,542 District nursing (enrolled nurses)¶ 2,967 3,532 3,749 3,898
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe updated figures requested for the years 1981 to 1983 are shown in the table. We do not yet have figures for 1984 at this level of detail.
The table is due to be published shortly as part of the 1985 edition of "Health and Personal Social Services Statistics".
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1980 1981 1982 1983 School nursing (registered nurses)• 2,190 2,404 2,434 2,445 School nursing (enrolled nurses) 225 205 225 218 Dual/triple duty posts: Health visitor/district nurse/midwife (and Health Visitor/Midwife) 91 103 84 68 District nurse/midwife (and SRN/Midwife) 1,043 950 842 634 Enrolled nurse/midwife 37 19 8 5 Other registered nurses▪ 1,494 2,019 2,047 2,059 Other enrolled nurses* 573 461 408 408 Nursing auxiliaries and other unqualified staff 3,752 4,256 4,445 4,494 Community health midwifery staff: District midwife 2,773 3,406 3,504 3,713 Agency nurses (hospital)# 3,989 3,520 2,727 2,191 Agency midwives (hospital)# 201 237 254 200 Agency nurses (PHC)# 35 — 58 43 Agency midwives (PHC)# — — — 7 Health visitor students# 1,027 1,125 1,069 1,023 District nurse students#* * — 229 418 577 * Excludes HV students, District Nurse students and agency staff. † Incorporates the grades of Senior Nursing Officer and Nursing Officer existing prior to the 1982 reorganisation of nurse grading structure. ‡ Includes nursing auxiliaries and nursery nurses. ║ Includes Health Visitor Fieldwork Teachers, HV School Nurses and HV Bank Nurses. ¶ Includes District Nurse Practical Work Teachers. Bank District Nurses and SRNs and SENs assisting District Nurses. • Includes school nurses and SRNs assisting school health services. ▪ Includes SRNs assisting health visiting and other SRNs in community nursing. * Includes SENs assisting health visiting and other SENs in community nursing. #Not included in the totals. * *Grade introduced in 1981.