Community Psychiatric Nurses

HC Deb 20 January 2003 vol 398 cc119-20W

Tim Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many of the community psychiatric nurses employed between 1995 and 2000 were working directly in(a) primary care GP practices or health centres and (b) secondary or tertiary care settings. [89924]

Mr. Hutton

The number of qualified nurses working in community psychiatric care who are employed by secondary and tertiary care organisations is shown in the table. These nurses work across the range of care settings. Information on nurses employed by general practitioner practices and health centres is not collected centrally.

NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS):
qualified community psychiatric nursing staff in England as at
30 September each year
	Headcount
1995	8,564
1996	9,333
1997	9,736
1998	10,231
1999	10,552
2000	11,080
2001	12,224

Note:

Figures exclude learners and agency staff.

Source:

Department of Health non-medical work force census.