HC Deb 09 February 1988 vol 127 cc207-11W
Mr. Corbyn

To 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.

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

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

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

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.