§ 20. Mr. AingerTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many managerial, nursing and midwife posts there were in the NHS, including trusts, in Wales in each year from 1988 to date.
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesThe information given as follows relates to staff numbers and not posts.
Managerial staff1 Nursing and midwifery staff Other Learners2 Total 1988 3— 24,583 3,336 27,920 1989 187 24,919 3,118 28,037 1990 416 25,018 3,075 28,093 1991 683 25,028 2,934 27,962 1992 848 25,451 1,970 27,421 1993 1,028 25,206 1,033 26,239 Notes:
Figures given are the whole-time equivalent number of staff employed as at 30 September each year.
Includes staff employed by the Welsh Health Common Services Authority and those Family Health Services Authorities using District Health Authority payroll systems.
The use of locally devised payscales from 1991 onwards may affect the comparability of figures as these staff cannot be allocated centrally to a specific staff group and are not, therefore, included above.
1General and senior managers. The growth in the number of these staff arises partly from the extension in 1989 of senior manager terms and conditions of service to second and third level managers including some senior nurses and other professional staff.
2 Since the autumn of 1991 student nurses have been classified as students and are no longer included in the NHS staff figures. Staff included here are students finishing courses begun before this date. There were some 1,800 Project 2000 student nurses at September 1993.
3 Comparable figures for years before 1989 are not available.