HC Deb 10 March 1999 vol 327 cc293-5W
Mr. Maclean

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many district nurses were assigned to each health authority for each month in 1997 and 1998. [73479]

Mr. Denham

The information requested is not collected on a monthly basis. The table shows the numbers of district nurses in post by health authority area in England as at 30 September 1997. Information for 1998 is not yet available.

NHS hospital and community health services: total district nurses, by health authority area, in England as at 30 September 1997
Whole time equivalent
Health authority Number
Total District Nurses 11,340
Avon Health Authority 190
Barking and Havering Health Authority 50
Barnet District Health Authority 70
Barnsley Health Authority 40
Bedfordshire Health Authority 110
Berkshire Health Authority 200
Bexley and Greenwich Health Authority 170
Birmingham Health Authority 360
Bradford Health Authority 100
Brent and Harrow Health Authority 60
Bromley Health Authority 50
Buckinghamshire Health Authority 140
Bury and Rochdale Health Authority 130
Calderdale and Kirklees Health Authority 110
Cambridge and Huntingdon Health Authority 70
Camden and Islington Health Authority 40
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Health Authority 60
County Durham Health Authority 70
Coventry Health Authority 50
Croydon Health Authority 50
Doncaster Health Authority 50
Dorset Health Authority 130
Dudley Health Authority 60
Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham Health Authority 150
East and North Hertfordshire Health Authority 70
East Kent Health Authority 50
East Lancashire Health Authority 160
East London and The City Health Authority 170
East Norfolk Health Authority 130
East Riding Health Authority 100
East Surrey Health Authority 70
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 210
Enfield and Haringey Health Authority 90
Gateshead and South Tyneside Health Authority 120
Gloucestershire Health Authority 140
Herefordshire Health Authority 50
Isle of Wight Health Authority 40
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 160
Kingston and Richmond Health Authority 30
NHS hospital and community health services: total district nurses, by health authority area, in England as at 30 September 1997
Whole time equivalent
Health authority Number
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 230
Leeds Health Authority 100
Leicestershire Health Authority 130
Lincolnshire Health Authority 130
Liverpool Health Authority 130
Manchester Health Authority 130
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority 200
Morecambe Bay Health Authority 120
Newcastle and North Tyneside Health Authority 120
North and East Devon Health Authority 140
North and Mid Hampshire Health Authority 110
North Cheshire Health Authority 140
North Cumbria Health Authority 80
North Derbyshire Health Authority 70
North Essex Health Authority 250
North Nottinghamshire Health Authority 60
North Staffordshire Health Authority 180
North West Anglia Health Authority 130
North West Lancashire Health Authority 110
North Yorkshire Health Authority 210
Northamptonshire Health Authority 140
Northumberland Health Authority 80
Nottingham Health Authority 240
Oxfordshire Health Authority 100
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Health Authority 130
Redbridge and Waltham Forest Health Authority 120
Rotherham Health Authority 50
Salford and Trafford Health Authority 170
Sandwell Health Authority 60
Sefton Health Authority 20
Sheffield Health Authority 80
Shropshire Health Authority 160
Solihull Health Authority 50
Somerset Health Authority 90
South and West Devon Health Authority 130
South Cheshire Health Authority 170
South Derbyshire Health Authority 120
South Essex Health Authority 160
South Humber Health Authority 70
South Lancashire Health Authority 110
South Staffordshire Health Authority 50
Southampton and South West Hampshire Health Authority 80
St. Helens and Knowsley Health Authority 60
Stockport Health Authority 210
Suffolk Health Authority 170
Sunderland Health Authority 100
Tees Health Authority 150
Wakefield Health Authority 70
Walsall DA 90
Warwickshire Health Authority 90
West Hertfordshire Health Authority 60
West Kent Health Authority 200
West Pennine Health Authority 110
West Surrey Health Authority 150
West Sussex Health Authority 180
Wigan and Bolton Health Authority 50
Wiltshire Health Authority 140
Wirral Health Authority 70
Wolverhampton Health Authority 50
Worcester and District Health Authority 180

Notes:

Figures exclude learners and agency staff

Figures are rounded to the nearest 10

Due to roundings, totals may not equal the sum of the component parts

Source:

Department of Health Non-medical Workforce Census

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