Nurses: Coventry
(asked on 2nd December 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nurses were employed in Coventry in each of the last 10 years.
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) HCHS nurses and health visitors, employed by National Health Service hospital trusts in the Coventry local authority area as at September in each of the last 10 years, along with the latest figure of August 2020.
| FTE nurses and health visitors in University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust | FTE nurses and health visitors in Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust |
September 2010 | 1,738 | 752 |
September 2011 | 1,600 | 760 |
September 2012 | 1,670 | 1,046 |
September 2013 | 1,631 | 1,030 |
September 2014 | 1,642 | 990 |
September 2015 | 1,765 | 957 |
September 2016 | 1,864 | 920 |
September 2017 | 1,920 | 916 |
September 2018 | 1,996 | 767 |
September 2019 | 2,113 | 790 |
August 2020 | 2,143 | 842 |
Source: NHS Workforce Statistics published by NHS Digital. Some of the year-on-year changes may reflect transfer of responsibilities and staff between organisations.