HC Deb 12 April 2002 vol 383 cc686-7W
Mr. Burns

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many(a) nurse and (b) consultant vacancies there are at Broomfield Hospital, Essex at the latest available date. [46709]

Mr. Hutton

[holding answer 10 April]: Broomfield Hospital is a hospital within Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust. Data is collected at Trust level only.

Department of Health Vacancies Survey, March 2001
Vacancies in NHS Trusts by Region, HA area and NHS Trust, consultant and qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff 3 month vacancy rates1,2 an numbers
All consultants Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff
3 month vacancy rates per cent 3 month vacancies Staff in post (wte) Staff in post (hc) 3 month vacancy rates per cent 3 month vacancies Staff in post (wte) Staff in post (hc)
England Total 3.0 per cent 672 21,580 23,661 3.4 per cent 8,997 255,903 316,280
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust 2.1 per cent 2 100 98 2.6 per cent 21 776 1,005

Notes:

1. Three month vacancies are vacancies as at 31 March 2001 which trusts are actively trying to fill, which had lasted for three months or more (whole time equivalents)

2. Three month vacancy rates are three month vacancies expressed as a percentage of three month vacancies plus staff in post from the September 2000 medical & dental and non medical workforce censuses (whole time equivalents)

3. Vacancy and staff in post numbers are rounded to the nearest ten

4. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place

5. * = figures based on less than ten posts

6. Totals may not equal sum of component parts due to rounding

7. HA figures are based on Trusts, and do not necessarily reflect the geographical provision of healthcare

8. Figures may not match previously published data due to

(i) a different method of rounding used on the staff in post data ii) NHS Trusts "mapped" into different

(ii) NHS Trusts "mapped" into different HA Areas/Regions to be consistents with Vacancies data (as at 31 March 2001)

Source:

Department of Health Vacancies Survey 2001

Department of Health non-medical workforce census 2000

Department of Health medical and dental workforce census 2000

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