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answer text: NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include only staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers. Some other organisations also provide health visiting services, so the data held by the Department only reflects part of the picture on overall health visitor numbers. The following table shows the full time equivalent (FTE) figures for health visitors for England and for each Health Education England region as at 30 September in the specified years: 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 England 8,100 7,849 7,802 7,687 8,304 9,162 10,236 9,521 8,497 7,884 Of which East Midlands 619 615 631 630 685 741 826 791 742 619 East of England 784 778 698 522 594 668 777 744 663 628 Kent, Surrey and Sussex 553 518 507 420 469 550 671 635 562 519 North Central and East London 384 403 389 406 433 553 670 630 443 427 North East 488 501 571 596 659 673 672 422 346 166 North West 1,386 1,329 1,317 1,414 1,463 1,602 1,793 1,733 1,674 1,586 North West London 298 237 237 351 425 470 511 506 498 510 South London 444 434 430 361 334 388 458 420 366 328 South West 663 663 599 452 599 565 619 412 370 312 Thames Valley 337 324 307 348 336 347 389 364 324 275 Wessex 326 308 323 360 394 457 554 514 489 446 West Midlands 889 872 895 918 1,039 1,197 1,287 1,237 1,091 1,027 Yorkshire and the Humber 929 867 898 908 875 953 1,009 1,113 929 1,041 Source: NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital NHS Digital began to collect and publish data on staff, including health visitors, in some English independent sector healthcare organisations, from September 2015. These statistics are collected biannually and published as experimental statistics. The following table shows the FTE figures of health visitors employed by Independent Healthcare Providers in England who provide valid data, as at 30 September each year since 201…
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