Learning Disability: Nurses
(asked on 16th July 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 learning disability nurses were employed in the North East in each year since 2010.
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows the full time equivalent figures for qualified learning disability nurses and health visitors in National Health Service trusts and CCGs in Health Education England North East, as at 30 September each specified year and latest data as at 31 March 2018.
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | March 2018 |
Learning Disabilities/ | 690 | 651 | 625 | 603 | 562 | 519 | 525 | 478 | 495 |
Source: NHS Digital monthly HCHS workforce statistics
Some of the reduction in learning disabilities nurses and health visitors will have been due to transfer of staff from the main employers (NHS foundation trusts) to a range of social care employers to reflect care delivered closer to home etc. Those nurses employed by social care providers are not recorded on NHS Digital data.