Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: Staff
(asked on 10th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of staffing levels at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust in (a) 2018, (b) 2019 and (c) 2020.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the staffing levels at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust as at 31 May 2010 and 30 July 2017.
Change in staffing levels in full time equivalent (FTE) by several staff groups at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust from May 2010 to July 2017.
Staff group in FTE | Sum of May-2010 | Sum of July-2017 | Change from May-2010 to July-2017 | Percentage change from May-2010 to July-2017 |
Professionally qualified clinical staff | 4,834 | 5,142 | 308 | 6.4% |
Doctors | 680 | 722 | 42 | 6.2% |
Nurses and health visitors | 1,550 | 1,606 | 56 | 3.6% |
Source: NHS Digital, NHS Hospital and Community Health Service workforce statistics.
Staffing is the responsibility of individual trusts.
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