Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what public sector organisations employ qualified nurses to provide health and social care services; and how many such nurses are employed by each such organisation (a) as a number and (b) as a proportion of the total number of qualified nurses working in the public sector.

Full information on which public sector organisations employ qualified nurses to provide health and social care services and the total number of qualified nurses working in the public sector is not available.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre monthly workforce statistics provides data on the number of nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff working in the National Health Service in England by organisation. The latest data is for March 2015 and is in the attached table.

The Skills for Care Social Care national minimum data set provides figures on the number of registered nurse jobs existing at councils and can be found at:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB16834