§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he is now able to give figures for 1984 to update table 3.14 of "Health and Personal Social Services Statistics for England 1982".
§ Mr. Whitney[pursuant to his reply, 28 November 1985 c. 657]: The updated table is as follows. These figures have not been previously published in this format. Figures for the years up to arid including 1983 were given in table 3.14 of "Health and Personal Social Services Statistics for England, 1985 edition", which was published on 3 December 1985.
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III Manpower Nursing and midwifery staff: Analysis by occupation and grade 30 September Table 3.14 England Whole-time equivalents†† 1984 All Nursing and Midwifery Staff* Total 392,120 Administrative nursing staff at Regional, Area and District HQs and centrally-based services 4,296 Administrative midwifery staff at Regional, Area and District HQs 179 Blood transfusion service staff 1,140 Hospital nursing staff: Total 328,268 Qualified: Total 174,631 Senior Nurses and above† 5,878 Tutorial nursing staff 4,701 Other registered nurses 97,588 Enrolled nurses 66,463 Learners: Total 69,492 Post-registration student nurses 1,959 Post-enrolment student nurses 1,475 Pre-registration student nurses 50,963 Pupil nurses 15,094 Unqualified: Total 84,148 Other nursing staff‡ 84,116 Nursing cadets 30 Hospital midwifery staff: Total 18,535 Qualified: Total 13,795 Senior Nurses and above† 627 Tutorial midwifery staff 540 Other state certified midwives 12,627 Learners: Student midwives 4,740 Primary health care nursing staff: Total 35,845 Senior Nursest† 1,498 District nursing tutorial staff 39
Whole-time equivalents †† 1984 Health Visitors[...] 9,232 TB Visitors with HV certificate 19 TB visitors without HV certificate 45 District nursing (registered nurses)¶ 10,548 District nursing (enrolled nurses)¶ 4,047 School nursing (registered nurses)[...] 2,442 School nursing (enrolled nurses) 219 Dual/triple duty posts: Health visitor/district nurse/midwife (and Health Visitor/Midwife) 49 District nurse/midwife (and SRN/midwife) 579 Enrolled nurse/midwife 6 Other registered nurses[...] 2,175 Other enrolled nurses* 389 Nursing auxiliaries and other unqualified staff 4,559 Community health midwifery staff: District midwife 3,859 Agency nurses (Hospital)# 3,426 Agency midwives (Hospital)# 220 Agency nurses (PHC)# 101 Agency midwives (PHC)# — Health visitor students # 971 District nurse students #** 648 * Excludes HV students, District Nurse students and agency staff.
† Incorporates the grades of Senior Nursing Officers and Nursing Officer existing prior to the 1982 reorganisation of nurse grading
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III Manpower Health and personal social services manpower summary 30 September Table 3.1 England Unit‡‡ September 1984 March 1985 All Health Service staff and practitioners: Total 865,435 n.a. All directly-employed staff: Total Wte 817,202 816,100 Medical and dental staff*: Total Wte 40,221 41,000 Medical staff 37,710 — Dental staff 2,510 — Hospital medical and dental staff: Total Wte 35,870 36,600 Medical staff 33,416 — Medical locum staff 1,371 — Dental staff 1,061 — Dental locum staff 22 — Community health service medical and dental staff: Total Wte 4,350 4,400 Medical staff 2,879 — Medical locum staff 44 — Dental staff 1,417 — Dental locum staff 10 — Nursing and midwifery staff: Total Wte 397,488 401,200 Nursing staff: Total Wte 374,695 — Administrative† 2,627 — Centrally based services 1,669 — Blood transfusion service 1,140 — Hospital staff 328,268 — Primary health care services2021 36,493 — Health visitor students 971 — Agency nurses 3,527 — Midwifery staff: Total Wte 22,794 — Administrative staff† 179 — Hospital staff 18,535 — Community health services 3,858 — Agency midwives 222 — Professional and technical (excluding works) staff†† Wte 72,656 72,700 Works professional staff: Total Wte 6,011 6,100 Health Authorities staff 6,010 — 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.
‡‡ All figures have been independently rounded.
§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will update table 3.1 of "Health and Personal Social Services Statistics for England 1982" by giving figures for 1981 to 1983 and such figures as are available for 30 March 1985.
§ Mr. Whitney[pursuant to his reply, 28 November 1985, c. 657]: The table shows the figures for September 1984, together with those figures which are available (at summary level only) for March 1985. These figures have not been previously published in this format. Corresponding figures for the years 1981 to 1983 were given in Table 3.1 of "Health and Personal Social Services Statistics for England, 1985 edition" which was published on 3 December 1985.
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Unitt ‡‡ September 1984 March 1985 Dental Estimates Board staff 1 — Maintenance (building and engineering) staff: Total Wte 20,216 20,000 Health Authorities staff 20,190 — Dental Estimates Board staff 12 — Prescription Pricing Authority staff 14 — Administrative and clerical staff| |: Total Wte 110,304 110,400 Health Authorities staff 106,817 — Dental Estimates Board staff 1,501 — Prescription Pricing Authority staff 1,987 — Ambulance officers and control assistants Wte 3,174 18,200 Ambulancemen/women Wte 14,929 — Ancillary staff: Total†† Wte 152,202 146,500 Health Authorities staff 152,126 — Dental Estimates Board staff 32 — Prescription Pricing Authority staff 43 — Family Practitioner Committee services: Practitioners: Total No. 48,233 n.a. General medical practitioners: Total ¶ No. 25,788 n.a. Unrestricted principals 23,640 n.a. Restricted principals 179 n.a. Assistants 266 n.a. Trainees 1,703 n.a. General dental practitioners: Total No. 14,066 n.a. Principals 13,984 n.a Assistants 82 n.a. Ophthalmic medical practitioners[...] No. 833 n.a Ophthalmic opticians[...] No. 4,998 n.a. Dispensing opticians[...] No. 2,553 n.a. Local Authority Social Services staff:[...] Senior social service staff[...] Wte 4,502 n.a. Senior social workers# 4,571 n.a. Social workers[...] 19,721 n.a. Home helpsµ 53,145 n.a. Day nursery staffΩ 6,875 n.a. Staff of adult training centres *** 4,837 n.a. Staff of homes for the mentally disordered** 8,891 n.a. Staff of residential homes for the elderly and physically handicapped** 55,704 n.a. Headquarters, Blood Transfusion Centre and Mass Radiography Unit staff are included in the groups of staff to which they relate—eg "Medical".
The definition used in setting manpower targets for the directly employed staff of Regional Health Authorities (and Special Health Authorities) excludes agency Nursing and Midwifery staff and locum Medical and Dental Staff.
* Excludes hospital practitioners, part-time medical/dental officers (clinical assistants), general medical practitioners participating in Hospital Staff Funds and occasional sessional staff in community health services.
† Area and district nursing and midwifery staff were included with hospital staff in 1974. Separate figures for administrative and centrally based nursing staff are not available for this year.
‡ Includes District Nurse Students (grade introduced in 1981).
| | Figures exclude ambulance officers.
¶Figures relate to 1 October.
•Figures relate to 31 December.
[...]Staff of residential establishments for children and day centres have been excluded.
⋆Senior directing, managing, professional and advisory staff only. Figures for 1974 include some senior social workers.
# Includes team leaders.
µ Figures include community workers, trainee social workers and welfare assistants.
µ Includes home help organisers and assistant organisers.
Ω Excludes clerical/secretarial, works, maintenance, and domestic etc. staff.
***Managers and instructors only.
** All staff including general clerical/secretarial, works, maintenance, domestic etc.
†† Not directly comparable with published figures for earlier years, due to the transfer of Operating Department Assistants on lApril 1984 from the Ancillary to the P & T 'B' staffs council.
‡‡ All figures have been independently rounded.
n.a. = Not available.