§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many doctors and nurses have been employed in NHS hospitals in(a) West Yorkshire and (b) Leeds since 1990; and how many vacancies for doctors and nurses in West Yorkshire and Leeds remain unfilled at present. [13815]
§ Mr. MaloneIndividual hospital units cannot be separately identified in the Department of Health's hospital and community health services work force censuses, but staff can be sub-divided between those working in hospitals and those working in the community472W on the basis of their area of work. The table gives information available centrally for West Yorkshire health authority area—formerly Huddersfield, Dewsbury and Calderdale district health authorities—and Leeds health authority area—formerly Western Leeds, Eastern Leeds and Leeds district health authorities.
NHS Hospital and Community health Services hospital doctors and nursing and midwifery staff in hospital areas of work (excluding agency staff and learners1); West Yorkshire Health Authority (HA) and Leeds HA at September 1990 to 1995 Whole-time equivalents 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 West Yorkshire HA Hospital doctors n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 420 Nursing and midwifery staff 3,030 2,750 2,780 2,820 2,810 n/a Leeds HA Hospital doctors n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 960 Nursing and midwifery staff 5,140 5,470 5,290 5,250 5,210 n/a Excluded from figures above Learners1 West Yorkshire HA 820 720 540 * — n/a Leeds HA 870 300 180 60 30 n/a Notes: 1 Learners are nurses on traditional nurse training courses and are directly employed by the NHS HCHS. Project 2000 training was introduced in 1989 and has gradually replaced traditional pre-registration nurse training. Project 2000 students are funded by bursaries. They are supernumerary, not employees, and thus excluded from the count of NHS HCHS nursing staff. Figures for Project 2000 students are not available by health authority. n/a = Not available. It is not possible to provide figures for hospital doctors below regional level before 1995 or to provide numbers of nursing and midwifery staff in hospital areas of work after 1994. * denotes five or less. All figures are rounded to the nearest ten whole-time equivalents.
Source:
Department of Health annual medical and dental and non-medical workforce censuses.
Information about the number of vacancies for doctors and nurses currently unfilled in West Yorkshire HA and Leeds HA areas is not available centrally.
Figures on vacancies for HCHS nurses and midwives are collected by the Office of Manpower and Economics and published in the annual reports of the Review Body for Nursing Staff, Midwives, Health Visitors and Professions Allied to Medicine, copies of which are available in the Library.