§ Dr. Evan HarrisTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many nurses are employed in accident and emergency departments in England. [43552]
§ Mr. HuttonIt is not possible to separately identify nurses employed in accident and emergency (A&E) departments.
On 30 September 2001, there were 241,910 nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff within the acute, elderly and general area of work.
The Reforming Emergency Care Strategy was announced in October 2001. It provides £40 million new investment between now and March 2003 to recruit 600 additional A&E nurses. This will provide sufficient staff to allow separation of services for patients with minor injury or illness from those patients with more serious conditions in all A&E departments.
§ Mr. HealdTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many whole-time equivalent(a)health visitors, (b)school nurses, (c)district nurses and (d)community 490W psychiatric nurses were in training in each region in September of each year since 1997 broken down by (i) gender and (ii) ethnic origin. [41700]
§ Mr. HuttonInformation collected by the Department does not record the gender or ethnicity of health visitors, school nurses, district nurses and community psychiatric nurses in training. Information was not collected in 1997–98. The whole-time equivalent numbers in training between 1999–2000 and 2000–01 in each region are shown in the tables.
Health visitors in training 1998–99 to 2000–01 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 Trent 55 53 59 South East 89 81 92 South West 42 34 38 Northern and Yorkshire 129 142 190 North West 76 84 84 London 101 99 105 Eastern 38 53 68 West Midlands 52 52 60 Total 580 598 695
School nurses in training 1998–99 to 2000–01 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 Trent 7 9 14 South East 19 20 21 South West 1 6 20 Northern and Yorkshire 31 27 18 North West 14 23 23 London 24 24 28 Eastern 5 10 18 West Midlands 19 18 20 Total 119 137 162
District nurses in training 1998–99 to 2000–01 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 Trent 50 44 49 South East 96 90 95 South West 36 28 42 Northern and Yorkshire 103 127 80 North West 64 71 71 London 93 101 103 Eastern 38 46 53 West Midlands 62 67 67 Total 541 574 560
Community psychiatric nurses in training 1998–99 to 2000–01 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 Trent 3 4 0 South East 64 51 34 South West 13 16 7 Northern and Yorkshire 13 38 6 North West 37 30 30 London 55 43 67 Eastern 19 38 29 West Midlands 40 34 34 Total 244 253 207 Source:
1998–99 data—November 1999 Financial and Workforce Information Return
1999–2000 data—November 2000 Financial and Workforce Information Return
2000–01 data—November 2001 Financial and Workforce Information Return
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§ Dr. FoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimates he has made of the number of whole time equivalent nurses who will be performing non-clinical duties with(a)the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, (b)the Commission for Health Improvement and (c)the NHS Modernisation Agency. [24598]
§ Mr. Hutton[pursuant to his reply, 10 January 2002, c. 999W]:I regret that my previous reply was incorrect. It should read as follows:
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence, the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) and the NHS Modernisation Agency are responsible for improvements in quality across the NHS. Nurses are employed within these agencies to provide the frontline perspective and to influence development.
Numbers are subject to change but in December there were two nurses employed in the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, 35 nurses employed in the Commission for Health Improvement and 51 in the Modernisation Agency.