HC Deb 10 March 1997 vol 292 cc67-9W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the hospital and community health services nurses who are (a) qualified, (b) unqualified, (c) midwives, (d) learner staff and (e) Project 2000 students, as whole-time equivalents, employed in each year since 1991. [18895]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The information available is shown in the table.

Nursing staff1 by qualification
Whole-time equivalent: at 30 September
1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
Nursing staff1 47,838.3 47,981.7 47,775.2 47,726.3 47,766.9
Hospital1 42,610.6 42,842.7 42,664.1 42,545.2 42,458.9
Qualified 27,060.0 26,988.8 26,780.0 26,899.6 26,916.6
Unqualified 15,550.6 15,854.0 15,884.0 15,645.5 15,542.4
Community1 5,227.8 5,138.9 5,111.2 5,181.1 5,308.0
Qualified 4,716.1 4,643.4 4,617.5 4,646.7 4,730.2
Unqualified 511.7 495.5 493.7 534.3 577.7
Midwifery
staff2 4,345.2 4,393.6 4,389.4 4,365.0 4,279.3
Midwives 2,765.4 2,783.2 2,814.4 2,804.6 2,745.8
Hospital 2,488.8 2,510.4 2,532.3 2,495.2 2,462.4
Community 276.7 272.7 282.1 309.4 283.4
Combined Duty Nurses3 533 516.6 499.1 480 439.1
Hospital maternity staff4 1,046.8 1,093.8 1,075.9 1,080.4 1,094.4
Qualified 182.9 215.4 223.9 253 311.6
Unqualified 864 878.5 852 827.4 782.8
Nurses in training
Hospital5 9,883.7 7,924.9 5,029.2 2,147.7 627.1
Community5 98 48.5 '35.2 "206.0 "245.0
P2000
students6 — 1,403 3,617 5,445 6,191
Programmes in midwifery — 121 283 424 456
Other — 1,282 3,334 5,021 5,735

Notes:

1 Excludes midwives, maternity nursing staff, combined duty nurses working with an element of midwifery, nurse teachers, nurses in training and P2000 students in nursing and midwifery. Some nursing staff included in the 'hospital' category may in fact work in a community setting.

2Excludes nurse teachers, nurses in training and P2000 students in nursing and midwifery. Some nursing staff included in the 'hospital' category may in fact work in a community setting.

3Midwives with combined duties including health visiting and district nursing.

4Consists of nursing staff working in the midwifery specially without a midwifery qualification.

5Nurses in training include staff on post-basic training.

6Figures have been supplied by the National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland. Data are numbers at 31 October.

7Under recorded. Some nurses in training have been unavoidably included with qualified grades.

8Figures have been supplied by the National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland. Data are numbers at 31 October and include nurses in training who are not sponsored by the NHS. Some nurses in training have been unavoidably included with qualified grades.

Source:

National Manpower Statistics from payroll (NAMS), National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland, ISD (Scotland).