Nurses: Wakefield

(asked on 10th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses were employed in Wakefield in (a) 2010 and (b) the latest date for which data is available.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 17th July 2014

The information requested is shown in the following table.

National Health Service hospital and community health services (HCHS) provisional monthly statistics: GP Practice nurses and HCHS nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff as at 30 September 20101 and 31 March 20142

full time equivalent

20101

March 20142

All specified organisations1, 2

2,383

2,153

GP Practice Nurses

100

128

HCHS Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff

2,283

2,024

Notes:

12010 figures are from the annual workforce census, and are an aggregate of GP Practice Nurses from Wakefield District Primary Care Trust and HCHS qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff from Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

2March 2014 is the latest available data from the provisional monthly statistics, and is an aggregate figure of GP Practice Nurses (data from September 2013 GP Census) from NHS Wakefield and HCHS qualified nursing, midwifery & health visiting staff from Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

Data Quality:

The Health and Social Care Information Centre seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.

Monthly data:

As from 21 July 2010 the Health and Social Care Information Centre has published provisional monthly NHS workforce data. As expected with provisional statistics, some figures may be revised from month to month as issues are uncovered and resolved. The monthly workforce data is not directly comparable with the annual workforce census; it only includes those staff on the Electronic Staff Record (i.e. it does not include Primary care staff or Bank staff). There are also new methods of presenting data (headcount methodology is different and there is now a role count). This information is available from September 2009 onwards at the following website: www.hscic.gov.uk

Sources:

Health and Social Care Information Centre Non-Medical Workforce Census

Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics

Health and Social Care Information Centre Provisional Monthly Workforce Statistics

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