Nurses: Lancashire
(asked on 18th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses were employed by (a) Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and (b) Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013 and (v) 2014.
The information requested is shown in the following table.
NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Qualified Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting staff working in Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust as at 30 September for each specified year | |||||
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20101 | 20111 | 20121 | 20131 | September 20142 | |
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | |||||
Qualified Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting staff | 1,853 | 1,817 | 1,739 | 1,820 | 1,894 |
Of which: | |||||
Registered Midwives | 161 | 164 | 147 | 154 | 153 |
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust | |||||
Qualified Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting staff | 1,271 | 1,196 | 2,139 | 2,093 | 2,047 |
Of which: | |||||
Registered Midwives | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Source:
Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), HCHS: Non-Medical Workforce Census.
HSCIC, HCHS: provisional monthly workforce statistics.
Notes:
'-' denotes zero.
Full-time equivalent figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.
12010-2013 figures are taken from the Non-Medical Workforce Census as at 30 September for each specified year.
22014 figures are taken from the provisional monthly workforce statistics as at 30 September 2014.
These statistics relate to the contracted positions within English National Health Service organisations and may include those where the person assigned to the position is temporarily absent, for example on maternity leave.
The changes in staff figures in Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust over the period of this request are likely to be due to moves in service provider from primary care trusts to neighbouring trusts as part of Transforming Community Services.
Monthly data
As from 21 July 2010 the HSCIC has published provisional monthly NHS workforce data. As expected with provisional statistics, some figures may be revised from month to month as issues are uncovered and resolved. The monthly workforce data is not directly comparable with the annual workforce census; it only includes those staff on the Electronic Staff Record (i.e. it does not include Primary care staff or Bank staff). There are also new methods of presenting data (headcount methodology is different and there is now a role count). This information is available from September 2009 onwards at the following website:
Data quality
The HSCIC seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality. Where changes impact on figures already published, this is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed.