Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent qualified school nurses are working in a public health-commissioned (a) school nursing service, (b) zero to 19 service and (c) five to 19 healthy child programme in each local authority area.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Since April 2013, local authorities have held responsibility for commissioning public health services for school-aged children. These services may be commissioned from a range of providers both inside and outside of the National Health Service. NHS England publishes monthly workforce data which includes information on the number of school nurses directly employed by NHS trusts and other core NHS organisations in England. This data will not represent the total number of school nurses delivering local authority commissioned services, as it will excludes places where services are commissioned outside of the NHS. It is not possible to identify the specific service or programme that these staff are working within.

While data is not available at a local authority level, the following table shows full-time equivalent (FTE) school nurses working within NHS trusts and other core organisations in England by Government Office Region, as of November 2023:

Found: North-East and the North-West of England are seeing far lower shortages compared to London and the South-East

Found: the North East and North West of England (1-2- %) whilst coach driver shortages are lowest in the East

Found: North-East and the North-West of England are seeing far lower shortages compared to London and the South-East

Found: North-East and the North-West of England are seeing far lower shortages compared to London and the South-East

Found: East of England Bishops Stortford CDC Braintree CDC Clacton CDC Ely CDC James Paget University Hospital

Found: Projects and improvements in the south and east of England are made possible by savings from Euston.

Found: simulate the journey HMT Empire Windrush by using a 700 seat Windrush Restaurant Ship for a weekend in the east

Found: The capacity study that existed was the East of England Sustainable Development Round Table 2001 which

Found: North East, Yorkshire and the Humber and North West; Midlands combines East Midlands, West Midlands and East

Found: of England; Southern combines London, the South East and South West.

Found: 44% - London: 7% - Scotland: 2% - Wales: 3% - South West: 7% - East Midlands: 8% - South East: 11% - East

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Found: East of England London North East North West Scotland South East South West Wales Prefer

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Found: Solihull has responsibility for Local Authorities in the Midlands, East of England, the South West of