Nurses

HC Deb 30 April 2002 vol 384 c757W

Mr. Vaz

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many nurses working for the NHS are on work permits. [46182]

Mr. Hutton

The Department of Health national health service hospital and community health services non-medical workforce census for England showed that there were 330,353 qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff employed in the NHS at 30 September 2001.

Information on the number of nurses working for the NHS on work permits is not collected centrally, but may be available from local NHS employers.

	East Lancashire	Morecambe Bay	North-west Lancashire	South Lancashire
Year/quarter	(1)	(2)	(1)	(2)	(1)	(2)	(1)	(2)
2001–02
3	200	27	195	30	139	0	99	0
2	166	16	162	43	178	0	89	0
1	176	11	192	34	218	1	91	0
2000–01
4	145	17	310	81	264	0	129	0
3	161	10	249	29	88	1	91	1
2	126	9	142	13	72	6	91	0
1	147	13	102	12	68	10	115	1
1999–2000
4	127	7	127	35	183	12	23	0
3	123	19	50	9	250	19	13	0
2	97	14	61	8	59	0	29	0
1	90	5	71	8	91	0	37	0
1998–99
4	99	8	32	2	98	0	34	5
3	122	11	32	4	117	0	19	0
2	124	13	46	10	86	9	15	0
1	111	8	44	2	79	6	31	0
1997–98
4	130	15	47	2	163	0	18	0
3	99	8	28	3	120	0	25	1
2	70	3	32	3	94	0	26	1
1	52	3	28	0	101	0	20	0

Notes:

1. Number of last cancellations for non-clinical reasons in the quarter

2. Number of patients not admitted within one month of last minute cancellation.

Source:

Departmant of Health froms QMNG and QMPC