HC Deb 26 February 2001 vol 363 cc426-9W
Mr. Harvey

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list(a) nationally and (b) by health authority, the number of NHS vacancies for (i) doctors, (ii) nurses, midwives and health visitors and (iii) the professions allied to medicine, for each year since 1990 for which figures are available. [150900]

Mr. Denham

The information requested is shown in the table.

Vacancies1 for medical and dental staff, nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff and the professions allied to medicine, within National Health Service trusts for each health authority area, in England, as at 31 March each year
Medical and Dental Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting Professions allied to medicine
Health authority 1999 2000 1999 2000 1999 2000
QC3 Manchester 10 10 210 150 20 30
QC4 Morecambe bay 4 10 3 10 3 4
QC5 St. Helens and Knowsley 10 10 20 30 20 10
QC6 Salford and Trafford 3 4 70 50 10 4
QC7 Sefton 4 4 30 30 4 10
QC8 Stockport 10 4 60 20 4 10
QC9 West Pennine 10 10 50 70 20 10
QCA East Norfolk 4 5 30 5 4 5
QCC Northamptonshire 10 10 80 50 4 30
QCD North West Anglia2 10 5 40 5 4 5
QCE Oxfordshire 4 4 80 190 4 10
QCF Suffolk 4 20 10 50 20 20
QCG Barnsley 10 4 4 10 3 4
QCH North Derbyshire 3 4 20 10 4 4
QCJ South Derbyshire 4 4 3 60 3 20
QCK Doncaster 3 4 20 20 10 10
QCL Leicestershire 10 10 40 130 10 10
QCM Lincolnshire 4 3 20 4 10 4
QCN North Nottinghamshire 10 4 30 20 10 4
QCP Nottingham 4 10 110 110 10 20
QCQ Rotherham 4 10 20 10 4 4
QCR Sheffield 4 4 80 90 4 10
QCT Bury and Rochdale 10 10 30 40 3 10
QCV North Cheshire 10 4 20 30 10 10
QCW South Cheshire 4 4 30 30 4 10
QCX East Lancashire 10 10 40 10 4 4
QCY North West Lancashire 10 4 20 130 10 10
QD1 North and Mid Hampshire 4 10 110 100 10 20
QD2 Portsmouth and SE Hampshire 10 10 50 100 10 20
QD3 Southampton and SW Hampshire 10 10 140 210 4 30
QD4 Isle of Wight 3 4 3 4 4 4
QD5 Somerset 4 10 30 30 4 4
QD6 South and West Devon 4 20 10 30 20 4 20
QD7 Wiltshire 4 10 140 120 10 4
QD8 Avon 10 10 80 300 10 20
QD9 Birmingham 10 30 300 350 20 40
QDA Wigan and Bolton 10 10 20 80 3 4
QDC Wirral 3 4 10 20 10 20
QDD Bradford 4 20 100 80 4 10
QDE County Durham 10 10 20 30 4 10
QDF East Riding 4 10 20 20 3 10
QDG Gateshead and South Tyneside 10 10 10 30 4 10
QDH Leeds 4 10 230 240 20 30
QDJ Newcastle and North Tyneside 4 10 110 260 10 10
QDK North Cumbria 4 10 3 10 3 4
QDL South Humber 20 10 30 20 20 20
QDM Northumberland 10 10 50 40 4 20
QDN Sunderland 4 4 3 10 4 4
QDP Tees 4 4 4 30 4 10
QDQ Wakefield 4 10 20 20 10 10
QDR North Yorkshire 4 10 20 10 4 4
QDT Calderdale and Kirklees 10 20 40 50 4 10
QDV Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 10 4 20 3 4 3
QDW Dorset 4 4 20 20 10 4
QDX North and East Devon 4 10 4 60 4 10
QDY Gloucestershire 4 4 30 60 4 10
QEA Coventry 4 10 10 70 4 10
QEC Dudley 4 4 4 60 10 10
QED Herefordshire 4 4 20 4 4 3
QEE Sandwell 4 4 60 80 10 20
EF Shropshire 4 4 10 30 10 20
QEG Solihull 4 3 3 30 3 4
QEH North Staffordshire 10 10 80 120 20 10
QEJ South Staffordshire 4 4 40 20 20 10
QEK Walsall 10 10 20 50 4 20
QEL Warwickshire 4 4 10 50 3 4
QEM Wolverhampton 4 4 80 80 10 10
QEN Worcester and District 10 10 70 30 10 20

Vacancies1 for medical and dental staff, nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff and the professions allied to medicine, within National Health Service trusts for each health authority area, in England, as at 31 March each year
Medical and Dental Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting Professions allied to medicine
Health authority 1999 2000 1999 2000 1999 2000
QEP East and North Hertfordshire 4 10 90 150 4 30
QEQ West Hertfordshire 4 10 110 190 20 40
QER Cambridge2 5 20 5 350 5 50
QET Norfolk2 5 4 5 70 5 20
1 Posts that had been vacant for three months or more as at 31 March of each year.
2 In April 2000 Cambridge and Huntingdon HA, East Norfolk HA and Northwest Anglia HA merged to become Cambridge HA and Norfolk HA therefore the 1999 and 2000 information is not directly comparable.
3 Denotes zero.
4 Denotes less than five or greater than zero.
5 Denotes not available.

Notes:

Figures are whole-time equivalents rounded to the nearest 10.

Source

Department of Health Vacancies Survey.