§ Mr. CorbynTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list by district health authority regions(a) the current nursing staff establishment, (b) the number in post at the latest available date, and (c) the number who have left the service of the National Health Service in the past year.
§ Mr. Newton[holding answer 2 February 1988]: The number of nursing and midwifery staff in post in each district health authority at 30 September 1986 is given in the table.
Detailed information about nurse establishments and nurses leaving the NHS is not available centrally but some such information will, however, become available later this year as a result of the introduction of improvements in National Health Service information systems.
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NHS Nursing and Midwifery Staff" in Post by Regional Health Authority at 30 September 1986 whole-time equivalent3 Region Nursing and Midwifery Northern 27,350 Yorkshire 30,200 Trent 37,120 East Anglia 15,410 North West Thames 27,310 North East Thames 32,940 South East Thames 29,510 South West Thames 23,730 Wessex 22,940 Oxford 16,860
Region Nursing and Midwifery South Western 26,930 West Midlands 42,350 Mersey 22,250 North Western 37,840 London Post-Graduate 4,520 Special Health Authorities England 397,240 209W
NHS nursing and midwifery staff1 2 in post by district heaith authority at 30 September 1986 Whole-time equivalent3 Northern Regional Health Authority Total 27,350 Hartlepool 800 North Tees 1,270 South Tees 2,580 East Cumbria 1,560 South Cumbria 1,140 West Cumbria 1,190 Darlington 1,190 Durham 1,160 North West Durham 730 South West Durham 1,600 Northumberland 3,180 Gateshead 1,450 Newcastle 4,920 North Tyneside 970 South Tyneside 950 Sunderland 2,590 Yorkshire Regional Health Authority Total 30,200 Hull 2,570 East Yorks 1,700 Grimsby 1,390 Scunthorpe 1,130 Northallerton 530 York 2,360 Scarborough 850 Harrogate 1,130 Bradford 2,770 Airedale 1,390 Calderdale 1,550 Huddersfield 2,020 Dewsbury 1,030 Leeds Western 3,320 Leeds Eastern 3,130 Wakefield 2,130 Pontefract 1,100 Trent regional health authority Total 37,120 North Derbyshire 2,130 Southern Derbyshire 3,850 Leicestershire 6,350 North Lincolnshire 2,320 South Lincolnshire 2,020 Bassetlaw 690 Central Nottinghamshire 2,190 Nottingham 5,340 Barnsley 1,610 Doncaster 2,430 Rotherham 1,770 Sheffield 6,330 East Anglia regional health authority Total 15,410 Cambridge 2,490 Peterborough 1,600 West Suffolk 1,620 East Suffolk 2,610 Norwich 3,780 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 1,390 210W
Whole-time equivalent3 West Norfolk and Wisbech 1,160 Huntington 720 North West Thames regional health authority Total 27,310 North Bedfordshire 1,450 South Bedfordshire 1,900 North Hertfordshire 1,000 East Hertfordshire 990 North West Hertfordshire 3,140 South West Hertfordshire 1,160 Barnet 2,700 Harrow 1,270 Hillingdon 1,980 Hounslow and Spelthorne 1,830 Ealing 1,790 Brent 1,990 Paddington and North Kensington 1,960 Riverside 4,040 North East Thames Regional Health Authority Total 32,940 Basildon and Thurrock 2,270 Mid Essex 1,920 North East Essex 2,940 West Essex 1,570 Southend 1,920 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 3,290 Hampstead 2,040 Bloomsbury 3,150 Islington 1,470 City and Hackney 2,480 Newham 1,080 Tower Hamlets 2,200 Enfield 1,400 Haringey 1,310 Redbridge 1,460 Waltham Forest 2,350 South East Thames Regional Health Authority Total 29,510 Brighton 2,230 Eastbourne 1,670 Hastings 1,260 South East Kent 1,570 Canterbury and Thanet 2,540 Dartford and Gravesham 1,930 Maidstone ,480 Medway 1,610 Tunbridge Wells 1,970 Bexley 1,550 Greenwich 1,910 Bromley 2,070 West Lambeth 2,380 Camberwell 1,940 Lewisham and North Southwark 3,380 South West Thames Regional Health Authority Total 23,730 North West Surrey 1,660 West Surrey and North East Hants 1,660 South West Surrey 1,200 Mid Surrey 1,890 East Surrey 1,750 Chichester 1,390 Mid Downs 1,760 Worthing 1,430 Croydon 2,440 Kingston and Esher 1,560 Richmond and Twickenham and Roehampton 1,280 Wandsworth 2,860 Merton and Sutton 2,750 Wessex Regional Health Authority Total 22,940 East Dorset 3,040 211W
Whole-time equivalent3 West Dorset 1,920 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 3,650 Southampton and South West Hampshire 4,050 Winchester 1,270 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 1,680 Salisbury 1,420 Swindon 1,730 Bath 3,100 Isle of Wight 1,070 Oxford Regional Health Authority Total 16,860 East Berkshire 2,150 West Berkshire 2,930 Aylesbury Vale 1,690 Wycombe 1,320 Milton Keynes 720 Kettering 1,480 Northampton 2,410 Oxfordshire 4,090 South Western regional health authority Total 26,930 Bristol and Weston 3,270 Frenchay 2,640 Southmead 2,110 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 2,880 Exeter 3,470 North Devon 980 Plymouth 2,950 Torbay 1,590 Cheltenham and District 1,290 Gloucester 2,410 Somerset 3,270 West Midlands regional health authority Total 42,350 Bromsgrove and Redditch 1,210 Herefordshire 1,240 Kidderminster and District 1,290 Worcester and District 1,760 Shropshire 2,810 Mid Staffordshire 1,790 North Staffordshire 4,130 South East Staffordshire 1,890 Rugby 460 North Warwickshire 1,370 South Warwickshire 1,920 Central Birmingham 2,770 East Birmingham 1,390 North Birmingham 1,440 South Birmingham 2,520 West Birmingham 2,570 Coventry 2,710 Dudley 2,080 Sandwell 1,560 Solihull 1,140 Walsall 1,920 Wolverhampton 2,280 Mersey regional health authority Total 22,250 Chester 1,740 Crewe 1,790 Halton 590 Macclesfield 1,630 Warrington 2,470 Liverpool 5,150 St. Helens and Knowsley 2,600 Southport and Formby 1,200 South Sefton 2,210 Wirral 2,780 North Western regional health authority Total 37,840 Lancaster 2,240
Whole-time equivalent3 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 2,490 Preston 2,540 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 2,780 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 2,660 West Lancashire 980 Chorley and South Ribble 630 Bolton 1,910 Bury 1,090 North Manchester 2,370 Central Manchester 2,060 South Manchester 3,030 Oldham 1,540 Rochdale 1,210 Salford 3,330 Stockport 2,200 Tameside and Glossop 1,380 Trafford 1,220 Wigan 2,050 Source: DHSS Annual census of National Health Service nonmedical manpower.
Notes:
1. Figures include qualified nurses and midwives, learners and unqualified staff but exclude agency staff.
2. Regional totals include Regional Headquarters and units staff.
3. Figures are independently rounded to the nearest ten (10) whole-time equivalents.