§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list by regional health authority for the last 12 months, the number of national health service student nurses(a) who have graduated as registered general nurses and (b) the number still unemployed.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyInformation on the number of student nurses graduating from training in the last 12 months and not yet employed in the NHS is not collected centrally.
The numbers completing first level training in each region during the year ended 31 March 1991 are shown in the table:
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Region Number Northern 1,215 Yorkshire 1,284 Trent 1,667 East Anglian 604 North West Thames 1,227 North East Thames 1,882 South East Thames 1,303 South West Thames 1,028 Wessex 1,000 Oxford 646 South Western 954 West Midlands 1,747 Mersey 1,019 North Western 1,652 Source: English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting.