Children's Nurses

HC Deb 13 January 2003 vol 397 c484W

Tim Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children's nurses there were in the(a)Adur, Arun and Worthing Primary Care Trust and(b) Worthing and Southlands Hosptial Trust in eachyear since 1997.[89356]

Ms Blears

The information requested for Worthing and Southlands Hospitals National Health Service Trust is shown in the table.

NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS):
Qualified nursing staff within the Paediatric nursing area of workin Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust as at30 September each year
Whole-time
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Total qualified staff	27	32	42	43	38
Headcount
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Total qualified staff	36	46	53	60	50

Notes

1.Figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.

2.Figures exclude learners and agency staff.

Source

Department of Health Non-Medical Workforce Census

Information is not available centrally on the number of children's nurses employed by Adur, Arun and Worthing Primary Care Trust.