Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many registered nurses aged between 60 and 67 are employed by (a) Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (b) Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust respectively; and what proportion of registered nurses in each of those NHS trusts are 60 to 67 years of age.

The information requested is shown in the tables below.

NHS Hospital and Community Health Services: Qualified Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting staff by age in Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as at 30 November 2015.

Notes:

Full-time equivalent figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.

These statistics relate to the contracted positions within English NHS organisations and may include those where the person assigned to the position is temporarily absent, for example on maternity leave.

All Ages in the tables above includes a small number of staff aged over 67.

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. This information is available from September 2009 onwards at the following website:

NHS Workforce Statistics, Provisional statistics - Monthly Statistics

Source:

Health and Social Care Information Centre Provisional Monthly Workforce Statistics