Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) nurses, (b) GPs, (c) midwives and (d) mental health specialists are working in Rother Valley.

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 practitioners (GPs) surgeries, local authorities or other providers.

The following table shows National Health Service HCHS staff in specified staff groups and organisations at 30 September 2019, the latest available data, full-time equivalent (FTE). The mental health workforce includes staff who either have a specialist professional qualification in an area relating to mental health or staff who work in an area relating to mental health.

The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent GPs working in NHS Rotherham CCG and the closest healthcare geography to the named constituency. Figures shown do not include GPs working in prisons, army bases, educational establishments, specialist care centres including drug rehabilitation centres, walk-in centres and other alternative settings.

As at September 2019 there are 102 FTE nurses in Rotherham CCG.