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Written Question
Nurses
Tuesday 13th January 2015

Asked by: Tony Baldry (Conservative - Banbury)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses worked in the NHS (a) in 2010 and (b) on the most recent date for which figures are available.

Answered by Jeremy Hunt

There are over 6,000 more nurses on our hospital wards since May 2010.