East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation NHS Foundation Trust: Nurses
(asked on 17th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full time equivalent nurses are employed by East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust, and its predecessor trusts, in each year since 2009-10.
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In July 2018, Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust merged with Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust to form East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust. The following table shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) nurses employed by Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust and Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust from September 2009 to September 2017.
| Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust | Total |
September 2009 | 868 | 833 | 1,701 |
September 2010 | 873 | 857 | 1,729 |
September 2011 | 865 | 872 | 1,737 |
September 2012 | 836 | 903 | 1,739 |
September 2013 | 850 | 961 | 1,811 |
September 2014 | 872 | 949 | 1,821 |
September 2015 | 905 | 1,017 | 1,923 |
September 2016 | 981 | 964 | 1,944 |
September 2017 | 1,010 | 940 | 1,950 |
The following table shows the number of FTE nurses employed by East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust from September 2018 to September 2021.
September 2018 | 2,208 |
September 2019 | 2,325 |
September 2020 | 2,415 |
September 2021 | 2,644 |