Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) doctors and (b) nurses have been recruited by Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust in each of the last 10 years.
The information requested is not available in the format requested.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre advises the available data is based on all nurses and doctors who are paid through the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and complete ESR data of the quality required is only available from 2009.
Such information as is available is in the following table.
Numbers of new Joiners in the 12 month period from 30 September Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
| 2009-2010 | 2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013 | 2013-2014 | 2014-2015 |
NHS Hospital & Community Health Service (HCHS) Doctors | 122 | 134 | 131 | 141 | 171 | 160 |
Nurses and health visitors | 129 | 146 | 82 | 152 | 212 | 139 |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, HCHS workforce statistics.
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