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Written question asked by Brian Jenkins (Labour) on Wednesday, 15 February 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 27 February 2006. It was answered by Baroness Winterton of Doncaster (Labour) on Thursday, 2 March 2006 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Health Care (Tamworth)

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many vacant midwife posts there are in (a) the Staffordshire and Shropshire Strategic Health Authority area and (b) the Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth Primary Care Trust area; and what plans her Department has to recruit more midwives into the NHS in Staffordshire.
Answer

The table shows the three-month vacancy rates for qualified midwives in the Shropshire and Staffordshire Strategic Health Authority (SHA) area by organisation, including the Lichfield and Tamworth Primary Care Trust (PCT) area.PCTs, working together with their local acute trust partners, are responsible for determining local workforce requirements, including numbers of midwives.

National health service three-month qualified midwifery vacancies in Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA area by organisation: Three-month vacancy rates—numbers and staff in post
March 2005 September 2004
Three-month vacancy rate (percentage) Three-month vacancy number (Staff in post) full-time equivalent (Staff in post) Headcount
Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA area total 0.4 2 519 683
Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth PCT — 0 0 0
Burton Hospitals NHS Trust 0.0 0 101 132
Cannock Chase PCT — 0 0 0
East Staffordshire PCT — 0 0 0
Mid-Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust 0.0 0 78 92
Newcastle-under-Lyme PCT — 0 0 0
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust — 0 0 0
North Staffordshire Hospital NHS Trust 1.1 2 178 227
North Stoke PCT — 0 0 0
Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust — 0 0 0
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust — 0 162 232
Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA — 0 0 0
Shropshire County PCT — 0 0 0
South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust — 0 0 0
South Stoke PCT — 0 0 0
South Western Staffordshire PCT — 0 0 0
Staffordshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust — 0 0 0
Staffordshire Moorlands PCT — 0 0 0
Telford and Wrekin PCT — 0 0 0
Notes: Three-month vacancy 1. Three-month vacancy information is as at 31 March 2005. 2. Three-month vacancies are vacancies which trusts are actively trying to fill, which had lasted for three months or more (whole time equivalents). 3. Three-month vacancy rates are three-month vacancies expressed as a percentage of three-month vacancies plus staff in post. 4. Three-month vacancy rates are calculated using staff in post from the Non-Medical Workforce Census September 2004. 5. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place. 6. — zero. Staff in post Staff in post data is from the Non-Medical Workforce Census, September 2004. General 1. Vacancy and staff in post numbers are rounded to the nearest whole number. 2. Calculating the vacancy rates using the above data may not equal the actual vacancy rates. 3. Due to rounding, totals may not equal the sum of component parts. 4. SHA figures are based on trusts and do not necessarily reflect the geographical provision of health care. Source: NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre Vacancies Survey, March 2005 NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre Non-Medical Workforce Census, September 2004

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
443 c914W;443 c914W; 53414
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Recruitment Midwives Vacancies Staffordshire Shropshire and Staffordshire Strategic Health Authority Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth Primary Care Trust
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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