Maternity Services: Staff
(asked on 22nd February 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) support workers and (b) people on Agenda for Change pay bands 1 to 4 were working in maternity services in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) support workers in bands 1 to 4 working within maternity services in England between September 2015 and October 2017.
NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Support Workers working within Maternity Services by Agenda for Change band in National Health Service trusts and clinical commission groups in England as at 30 September each specified year and latest data as at 31 October 2017, FTE.
Support workers (FTE) | September-2015 | September-2016 | September-2017 | October-2017 |
Band 1 | 86 | 95 | 85 | 78 |
Band 2 | 4,076 | 4,163 | 4,130 | 4,144 |
Band 3 | 1,973 | 2,107 | 2,076 | 2,078 |
Band 4 | 472 | 449 | 468 | 457 |
Unknown | 46 | 44 | 43 | 42 |
Source: NHS Digital, HCHS monthly workforce statistics.