Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses are employed by each NHS Trust in Lancashire; how many such nurses were recruited from outside the UK; and from which countries such nurses were recruited.
The Department does not collect data on staff recruitment from outside the United Kingdom. It is the responsibility of local National Health Service organisations to recruit the appropriate staff required to deliver services for the health needs of their local populations.
Information on the number of nurses employed by NHS trusts in Lancashire can be found in the table below.
NHS Hospital and Community Health Services: Qualified Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting staff working in specified Lancashire Trusts as at 31 March 2015 | |||
Full-time equivalent | |||
March 2015 | |||
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 1,999 | ||
Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | 199 | ||
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust | 2,199 | ||
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust | 2,085 | ||
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 1,932 | ||
Notes: | |||
Full-time equivalent figures are rounded to the nearest whole number. | |||
These statistics relate to the contracted positions within English NHS organisations and may include those where the person assigned to the position is temporarily absent, for example on maternity leave. | |||
Data Quality: | |||
The Health and Social Care Information Centre 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. | |||
Monthly Data: | |||
Provisional monthly NHS workforce data figures may be revised from month to month as issues are uncovered and resolved. The monthly workforce data does not include Primary care staff or Bank staff. | |||
Source: | |||
Health and Social Care Information Centre, NHS Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) provisional monthly workforce statistics. | |||