§ Mr. BurnsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many(a) hospital nurse and (b) consultant vacancies there are in the Mid-Essex Hospital NHS Trust. [127471]
§ Dr. LadymanThe information is shown in the table.
Department of Health Vacancies Survey, March 2003, vacancies in Mid-Essex Hospital Services Trust three month vacancy rates, numbers and staff in post Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff
England of which: RQ8 Mid-Essex
Hospital Service
NHS Trust
March 2003 Three month vacancy rate (percentage) 2.9 0.8 Three month vacancy number 7,967 7 September 2002 Staff in post (whole-time equivalent) 279,287 872 Staff in post (headcount) 346,537 1,237 Notes:
1. Three month vacancy information is as at 31 March 2003.
2. Three month vacancies are vacancies which Trusts are actively trying to fill, which had lasted for three months or more (whole-time equivalents).
3. Three month Vacancy Rates are three month vacancies expressed as a percentage of three month vacancies plus staff in post.
4. Three month Vacancy Rates are calculated using staff in post from the Vacancy Survey, March 2003.
5. Nursing staff in post data are from the Non-Medical Workforce Census, September 2002.
6. Consultant staff in post data are from the Medical and Dental March 2003 Mini-census.
7. Vacancy and staff in post numbers are rounded to the nearest whole number.
Sources:
Department of Health Vacancies Survey, March 2003.
Department of Health Non-Medical Workforce Census, September 2002.
Department of Health Medical and Dental March 2003 Mini-census.
§ Mr. BurnsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many(a) general practitioner and (b) practice nurse vacancies there are in the Mid-Essex Hospital Trust area. [127437]
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§ Dr. LadymanThe Department of Health first carried out a survey into GP recruitment, retention and vacancies in 2000. The information was collected from health authorities. The latest published data are for 2001–02.
The information available for Essex covers all vacancies outstanding at any time in the 12-month period between 1 March 2001 and 28 February 2002. Essex health authority and South Essex health authority each had 46 general practitioner vacancies which were outstanding at some time in this 12-month period.
Information on practice nurse vacancies is not collected centrally.