Written question asked by John Baron (Conservative) on Wednesday, 18 January 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 23 January 2006. It was answered by Liam Byrne (Labour) on Monday, 30 January 2006 on behalf of the Department of Health.
Maternity Services
- Question
- To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many three-month vacancies for midwives there are in the national health service in England.
- Answer
-
[holding answer 23 January 2006]: The last survey showed that there were 348 three-month vacancies for midwives in the national health service in England at March 2005. The vacancy rate has fallen from 3.3 per cent. in March 2004 to 1.8 per cent. in March 2005, which is shown in the following table.
Three-month vacancies and vacancy rates March 1999–05 Vacancy rate (percentage) Number of vacancies 1999 2.1 400 2000 2.8 510 2001 2.6 470 2002 2.8 530 2003 3.1 572 2004 3.3 619 2005 1.8 348 Notes: 1. Vacancy rates rounded to one decimal place. 2. Number of vacancies rounded to the nearest 10. 3. Three-month vacancies are posts that have been vacant for three months or more as at 30 March that trusts are actively trying to fill. 4. Three-month vacancy rates are three-month vacancies as a percentage of vacancies plus staff in post.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 44938; 442 c173-4W;442 c173W
- Session
- 2005-06
- Subjects
- Midwives Vacancies
- Contains statistics
- Yes
- Link
- View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk
Librarians' tools
- Timestamp
- 2013-11-25 21:33:31 +0000
- URI
- http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/Hansard/PARLIAMENTARY_QUESTION_1103742
- In Indexing
- http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/Hansard/PARLIAMENTARY_QUESTION_1103742
- In Solr
- https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/Hansard/PARLIAMENTARY_QUESTION_1103742