HC Deb 12 January 2004 vol 416 c588W
Tim Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many registered nurses work in general accident and emergency units in England. [145666]

Mr. Hutton

Separate information is not collected on the number of nurses employed in accident and emergency units in the national health service. Qualified accident and emergency nurses are included in the 'Acute, elderly and general' area of work. As at September 2002 there were 187,439 nurses employed in the acute, elderly and general area of work in the NHS, an increase of 9,535 over the previous year and 27,505 since 1997.