Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses, excluding midwives and health visitors per one million population there were in (a) England and (b) each Health Education England region in each year since 2009-10.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) publish an annual workforce census, which shows staff working in the National Health Service in England. The latest information from the census was published in March 2014 and shows the position at 30 September 2013, the next annual census will be published in March 2015 showing the position as at 30 September 2014. The HSCIC also publish monthly NHS workforce statistics.

The attached table shows the number of nurses, excluding midwives and health visitors per 1,000,000 population from September 2004 to October 2014. Health Education England regions have only existed from 2013, so national figures have been used for this time series.

The latest hospital and community health services monthly workforce statistics published by the HSCIC ,shows that there has been an increase of over 6,300 in the nursing, midwifery, and health visiting group between May 2010 and October 2014.This includes nearly 2,000 more midwives, over 3,000 more health visitors and over 1,300 more nurses.