§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the hospital and community health services nurses who are(a) qualified, (b) unqualified, 41W (c)midwives, (d)learner staff and (e)Project 2000 students, as whole-time equivalents, employed in each year since 1991. [18898]
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesThe information is given in the following table. Details for midwifery staff are included in the figures and are not available separately.
Nursing and midwifery staff1 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 Qualified2 17,633 17,763 17,650 16,565 16,647 Unqualified 7,019 7,355 7,222 6,616 6,636 Education staff 376 333 263 238 63 Not known3 22 104 288 1,802 1,382 Learners4 2,934 1,970 1,033 144 7 Project 2000 students5 100 1,078 1,871 1,969 1,951
£000 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 General and senior managers 1,781 6,567 9,543 19,432 20,919 30,836 Nurses and midwives1 318,797 338,151 364,519 402,501 425,736 421,737 Administrative and clerical staff2 61,337 66,747 77,430 79,134 96,059 110,832 Notes:
1Information on salaries and wages cost for family health services authorities are not held centrally, and figures for nurses and midwives cannot be disaggregated from administrative and clerical costs.
2These figures exclude the costs of GPs' administrative staff as the information was not separately collected.
Sources:
Financial returns and annual accounts of district health authorities, NHS trusts, family health services authorities, the Health Promotion Authority for Wales and the Welsh Health Common Services Authority.