Midwives: Migrant Workers

(asked on 11th October 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many midwives from other EU countries work at hospitals in (a) Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust, (b) St Helens and Knowsley Hospital Services NHS Trust, (c) Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, (d) Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, (e) Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust and (f) Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 19th October 2016

Information is not available in the format requested. Information showing the number of midwives from other European Union countries for specified National Health Service trusts as at 30 June 2016 is shown in the following table.

Full-time equivalent

Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

-

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

-

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

2

St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust

2

Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

3

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

1

Source: NHS Digital

Notes:

  1. EU countries include the following countries; Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden, as per the link:

https://www.gov.uk/eu-eea

  1. The nationality field available within the Electronic Staff Record system upon which these figures are based, contains self-reported information from individual employees.
  2. Nationally over 95,000 NHS staff records do not contain useful data with people choosing not to specify their nationality or not asked to.
  3. In addition, as nationality is self-reported, the value entered by an individual may reflect their cultural heritage rather than their country of birth. As such, these figures should be treated with a significant degree of caution. Therefore these figures do not necessarily equate to migrants from other countries, and such data is not captured elsewhere in the workforce systems.
  4. Full-time equivalent figures are rounded to the nearest whole number. ‘-‘ denotes zero.
  5. Following a public consultation in 2015, categorisation of trusts and staff groups has changed therefore restricting comparability with previous publications. Because of these changes, these statistics are classed as experimental. More details regarding these changes can be found in the outcomes of the consultation document available at the following link:

http://content.digital.nhs.uk/hchs

  1. NHS Digital 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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