East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: Nurses

(asked on 4th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nurses there are in East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; and how many of those nurses were recruited in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 12th March 2020

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care, general practitioner (GP) surgeries, local authorities or other providers.

As at November 2019, the latest available data, there are 2,323 nurses and health visitors at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, headcount.

The following table shows the number of nurses and health visitors joiners for the period specified to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, headcount.

Nurses and Health Visitor Joiners

November 2010 - 2011

513

November 2011 – 2012

189

November 2012 – 2013

295

November 2013 – 2014

291

November 2014 – 2015

287

November 2015 – 2016

296

November 2016 – 2017

324

November 2017 – 2018

246

November 2018 - 2019

349

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