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Dept of Health

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Mr. McNamara: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the ethnic composition of NHS personnel is broken down into the categories of the Census for (a) doctors, (b) consultants, (c) general practitioners excluding retainers, registrars and locums, (d) nurses, (e) midwives, (f) managers and senior managers, (g) other and (h) all NHS personnel. [224647] Mr. Hutton: Information on the ethnicity of general practitioners and practice staff is not collected centrally. Information on the ethnic composition of all other national health service personnel is shown in the table. Hospital, Public Health Medicine and Community Health Services (HCHS): Medical and dental staff 1, and Non-medical staff 2 by ethnicity3 England as at 30 September 2004 Number (headcount) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. All HCHS HCHS medical of which: All non- of which: Qualified of which: staff and dental HCHS medical staff Professionall nurses Midwives staff 1 Consultant 2 y qualified clinical staff total All staff 1,184,748 82,951 30,650 1,101,797 521,526 375,371 24,844 2001 Population Census Ethnic Group Categories All 2001 Ethnic Groups 1,118,641 74,677 25,635 1,043,964 493,353 354,859 22,759 White 851,703 43,692 19,630 808,011 365,689 244,964 17,315 Black or Black British 46,933 2,569 605 44,364 23,738 21,099 1,585 Asian or Asian British 61,441 20,384 3,529 41,057 24,383 19,066 340 Mixed 9,331 1,333 274 7,998 4,026 3,021 141 Chinese 5,510 1,437 332 4,073 3,020 2,411 295 Any Other Ethnic Group 19,976 3,636 953 16,340 10,918 9,580 187 Not Stated 123,747 1,626 312 122,121 61,579 54,718 2,896 Earlier Ethnic Group Categories3 All Earlier Ethnic Groups 66,107 8,274 5,01 5 ; 57,833 28,173 20,512 2,085 White 55,956 6,005 4,131 49,951 23,883 17,503 1,815 Black 2,227 375 169 1,852 1,040 893 84 Asian 2,218 1,347 483 871 504 337 27 Any Other Ethnic Group 1,421 499 230 922 671 600 18 Not Stated 4,285 48 2 4,237 2,075 1,179 141 Qualified Qualified Qualified Other Qualified Support to Support to Support to ST&T total AHPs healthcare qualified ambulance clinical doctors and ST&T scientists ST&T staff staff Total nurses All staff 128,883 58,959 28,242 41,682 17,272 368,285 303,630 55,025 2001 Population Census Ethnic Group Categories All 2001 Ethnic Groups 121,804 56,077 26,237 39,490 16,690 349,151 287,449 52,157 White 105,683 50,078 22,043 33,562 15,042 270,262 216,470 45,121 Black or Black British 2,567 853 755 959 72 14,192 12,567 1,525 Asian or Asian British 5,223 1,740 1,535 1,948 94 9,392 7,327 1,975 Mixed 916 374 207 335 89 2,442 1,952 411 Chinese 605 161 166 278 4 515 373 130 Any Other Ethnic Group 1,306 376 376 554 32 3,389 2,909 470 Not Stated 5,504 2,495 1,155 1,854 1,357 48,959 45,851 2,525 Earlier Ethnic Group Categories3 All Earlier Ethnic Groups 7,079 2,882 2,005 2,192 582 19,134 16,181 2,868 White 6,204 2,614 1,676 1,914 176 16,870 14,266 2,559 Black 145 42 57 46 2 561 506 55 Asian 167 49 68 50 -- 222 191 31 Any Other Ethnic Group 71 25 23 23 -- 163 149 14 Not Stated 492 152 181 159 404 1,318 1,069 209 Support to NHS Central Hotel property Managers and Other and ambulance staff infrastructure functions ad estate staff senior managers unknown total support Total All staff 9,630 211,489 99,831 73,932 37,726 497 2001 Population Census Ethnic Group Categories All 2001 Ethnic Groups 9,545 200,995 96,317 68,407 36,271 465 White 8,671 171,666 82,512 57,570 31,584 394 Black or Black British 100 6,433 2,829 2,813 791 1 Asian or Asian British 90 7,279 4,027 2,370 882 3 Mixed 79 1,518 755 505 258 12 Chinese 12 536 249 186 101 2 Any Other Ethnic Group 10 2,032 831 953 248 1 Not Stated 583 11,531 5,114 4,010 2,407 52 Earlier Ethnic Group Categories3 All Earlier Ethnic 85 10,494 3,514 5,525 1,455 32 Groups White 45 9,167 3,071 4,852 1,244 31 Black -- 251 78 141 32 -- Asian -- 145 69 57 19 -- Any Other Ethnic Group -- 88 35 32 21 -- Not Stated 40 843 261 443 139 1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Excludes Medical Hospital Practitioners and Medical Clinical Assistants, most of whom are GPs working part time in hospitals. 2 In non-medical data, "Unknown" includes unstated and unrecorded ethnic group. The ethnic group of all bank staff is unrecorded. 3 From 1 April 2001, newly appointed staff have been asked to classify themselves using the ethnic categories listed in the 2001 population census. Existing staff will be reclassified over time but data returns currently include a mixture of 2001 categories and older information based on 1991 population census categories. Source: Department of Health medical and dental workforce census Department of Health General and Personal Medical Practitioners Department of Health non-Medical Workforce Census

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Type

Written question

Reference

432 c1246-8W; 224647

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Consultants Doctors Ethnic groups General practitioners NHS Managers Nurses Midwives

Contains statistics

Yes

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