Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many midwives from EU countries work in hospitals in (a) Lancashire and (b) the North West.
This information is shown in the following table.
Qualified Midwifery staff in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups by Lancashire NHS Commissioning Board (NHSCB) area and North West Health Education England (HEE) region as at 31 March 2016.
|
| Full-time equivalent |
| North West HEE Region | Lancashire NHSCB area |
Qualified Midwifery Staff | 2,947 | 446 |
of which: | ||
European Union nationals (non-United Kingdom) | 40 | 5 |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Provisional NHS Hospital and Community Health Service monthly workforce statistics.