Nurses: Schools

(asked on 26th April 2018) - 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 school nurses there were in each January since January 2010.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 1st May 2018

School nurses are commissioned by local authorities and can be employed by a range of provider organisations including health trusts and local authorities themselves. Our best data comes from the National Health Service electronic staff record (ESR) which does not cover the complete range of these organisations. As a result, it is not possible to provide accurate data on the total size of the school nurse workforce. The ESR data in the table below presents statistics on school nurses employed by NHS trusts in England only:

NHS Hospital and Community Health Services: Qualified nurses working in the area of school nursing in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England as at 30 January each specified year full- time equivalent (fte).

All registered (qualified) nurses working in the care setting of school nursing (fte)

of which qualified school nurses (fte)

January 2010

3,026

1,121

January 2011

2,965

1,057

January 2012

2,849

1,110

January 2013

2,721

1,113

January 2014

2,775

1,104

January 2015

2,775

1,098

January 2016

2,693

1,069

January 2017

2,553

1,092

January 2018

2,332

1,058

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