§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many doctors and nurses have been employed in NHS hospitals in(a) West Yorkshire and (b) Leeds since 1990; [18433]
NHS hospital and community health services nursing and midwifery staff, excluding agency staff and learners, in hospital areas of work, Leeds and West Yorkshire district health authorities at September 1990 to 1994 Whole-time equivalents 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Leeds DHA 5,140 5,470 5,290 5,250 5,210 West Yorkshire DHA 3,030 2,750 2,780 2,820 2,810 Excluded from foregoing figures: Learners1 Leeds DHA 870 300 180 60 30 West Yorkshire DHA 820 720 540 2— 3— Notes:
Learners are nurses on traditional nurse training courses and are directly employed by the NHS HCHS. Project 2000 training was introduced in 1989 and has gradually replaced traditional pre-registration nurse training. Project 2000 students are funded by bursaries, they are supernumary not employees, and are thus excluded from the count of NHS HCHS nursing staff. Figures for Project 2000 students are not available by DHA.
All figures are rounded to the nearest ten whole-time equivalents.
2Denotes five or less.
3Denotes zero.
Source:
Department of Health annual non-medical work force census.
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§ Mr. MaloneInformation about the number of vacancies for doctors and nurses which remained unfilled in 1995 in West Yorkshire and Leeds, and the number of doctors in hospitals in these areas for the last five years is not available centrally.
Figures for medical staff working in the hospital and community health service (HCHS) are collected by the Department of Health's medical and dental work force census. Copies of the census results at national and regional level, including figures on the number of vacancies at September each year, are in the Library.
Figures on vacancies for HCHS nurses and midwives are collected by the Office of Manpower and Economics and published in the annual reports of the Review Body for Nursing Staff, Midwives, Health Visitors and Professions Allied to Medicine; copies are in the Library.
Information on vacancies for general medical practitioners and general medical services practice staff is not available centrally.
The number of HCHS nursing and midwifery staff is collected by the Department of Health's non-medical work force census; the latest figures available are for 1994. Individual hospital units cannot be separately identified in the census, but nursing and midwifery staff can be sub-divided between those working in hospitals and those working in the community on the basis of their area of work.
The table gives the number of nursing and midwifery staff working in hospital areas of work in Leeds district health authority, formerly Western Leeds, Eastern Leeds and Leeds DHAs and West Yorkshire health authority, formerly Huddersfield, Dewsbury and Calderdale DHAs, from 1990 to 1994. It is not possible to sub-divide other HCHS non-medical staff groups between hospital and community areas of work. Also, the sub-division of nursing and midwifery staffs between hospital and community areas of work will not be possible for the 1995 non-medical work force census and future censuses because of the introduction of new occupation codes.
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