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Written Question
Health Services
Wednesday 9th July 2014

Asked by: Earl of Courtown (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people treated by the National Health Service were considered to have (1) a serious condition, and (2) a non-serious condition, in the last year for which figures are available.

Answered by Earl Howe

No nationally agreed definitions of serious and non-serious conditions exist in order to quantify how many people treated by the National Health Service have such conditions.


Written Question
NHS: Staff
Thursday 3rd July 2014

Asked by: Earl of Courtown (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many non-clinical or managerial staff were working in the National Health Service on (1) 1 April 2010, and (2) 1 April 2014.

Answered by Earl Howe

In the provisional monthly National Health Service hospital and community health service (HCHS) workforce statistics, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, the category of NHS Infrastructure Support Staff records the numbers of non-clinical staff working in the NHS in England. This includes administrative and clerical staff working in central functions; hotel, property and estates; as well as managers and senior managers.

The numbers of NHS Infrastructure Support staff as at 31 March 2010 and 31 March 2014 are shown in the following table. The statistics for March 2014 are the latest available and therefore March 2010 data is also used to ease comparability. The April 2014 statistics will be published on 22 July 2014.