Nurses: Lancashire

(asked on 25th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses were recruited by each NHS Trust in Lancashire in 2014; and how many of those nurses trained (a) at the University of Central Lancashire, (b) at Edge Hill University, (c) at Bolton University, (d) at other universities, (e) in Italy, (f) in Spain, (g) in other EU countries and (h) in non-EU countries.


Answered by
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Ben Gummer
This question was answered on 1st July 2015

The Department does not collect data on where nurses, or other staff, received training. 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.

The number of nurses joining NHS trusts in Lancashire is shown in the table below.

NHS Hospital and Community Health Service workforce turnover: Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting joiners to the NHS by selected trusts in Lancashire between January 2014 and January 2015, headcount

Between January 2014 and January 2015

headcount

Joiners

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

173

Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

30

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

185

Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust

242

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

208

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), provisional monthly NHS workforce data

Notes:

Turnover data is based on headcount.

Figures based on data from all English NHS organisations who are using the Electronic Staff Record.

Further information on turnover statistics:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB17272/nhs-work-stat-jan-2015-turn-tab-qrtly.xls

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.

www.hscic.gov.uk/pubs/provisionalmonthlyhchsworkforce

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. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.

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