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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Baron: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the expenditure by West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service NHS Trust was in each of the financial years since 2001-02 on employing (a) qualified nursing staff and (b) qualified temporary nursing staff. [224844] Miss Melanie Johnson: The table shows expenditure by the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (WYMAS) on NHS qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff and non NHS nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff, for the years 2001-02 to 2003-04. (£) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Qualified NHS nursing, midwifery and Non-NHS nursing, midwifery and health health visiting staff visiting staff 2001-02 13,599,638 12,460,320 2002-03 22,972,181 38,150,587 2003-04 26,596,911 21,660,434 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. The Department collects expenditure information on NHS and non-NHS staff by NHS trusts. Non-NHS staff expenditure figures include all agency staff and any other staff not directly employed by the trusts. 2. WYMAS was a lead organisation for NHS Professionals. The non-NHS figures shown in the table relate to expenditure on NHS professionals. These figures have not been used in previous parliamentary responses (to avoid double counting) due to the fact that other NHS trusts included the expenditure in their financial returns when reporting NHS professionals that they employed via WYMAS. Source: Annual financial returns of NHS trusts.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c1712W;432 c1707-8W; 224844

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Nurses Temporary employment West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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