Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) doctors, (b) midwives and (c) nurses and health visitors were employed by St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust in each year between 2010 and 2017.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the number of full time equivalent Hospital and Community Health Service Doctors (HCHS), Midwives and Nurses and Health Visitors employed by St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust at 30 September 2010 to 2016. Data for May 2017 is also provided as this is the latest available.
NHS HCHS: Doctors, Midwives and Nurses and health visitors in St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust as at 30 September each specified year and 31 May 2017
Full-time equivalent | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | May - 2017 |
HCHS Doctors | 807 | 511 | 543 | 560 | 553 | 605 | 576 | 576 |
Midwives | 108 | 112 | 118 | 115 | 123 | 122 | 120 | 130 |
Nurses and health visitors | 973 | 966 | 1,014 | 1,114 | 1,126 | 1,148 | 1,189 | 1,258 |
Source: NHS Digital, Provisional NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics.
Note: The HCHS Doctors figure for September 2010 includes a large number of Specialty Registrars. This relates to the time at which the Trust became the Lead Employer of Doctors and Dentists in Specialty Training (Trainees) for all trusts and general practitioner practices in the Mersey area. Initially a large number of trainees who should have been coded as working in other organisations and settings were reported at this Trust. In subsequent months the coding of these staff, using the Position Workplace Organisation Code in Electronic Staff Record, was improved to reflect where staff were working with numbers of Specialty Registrars at the Trust decreasing as a result.