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Written question asked by Parmjit Dhanda (Labour) on Tuesday, 15 December 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 6 January 2010. It was answered by Ann Keen (Labour) on Wednesday, 6 January 2010 on behalf of the Department of Health.

NHS: Gloucester

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS (a) doctors and (b) nurses are employed in Gloucester; and what the equivalent figures were in 1997.
Answer

The information is not held in the format requested.The number of national health service hospital and community health services staff in Gloucester for each specified staff group in each specified organisation as at 30 September 2002 to 30 September 2008, is given in the following table.

National health service hospital and community health services (HCHS): NHS staff in each specified staff group in each specified organisation as at 30 September each year
Headcount
Total specified organisations 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Medical and dental staff¹ 540 588 662 712 740 711 782
General Practitioners (GPs) 419 430 436 452 445 437 449
HCHS qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff 2,877 3,086 3,180 3,336 3,212 3,311 3,507
GP practice nurses 237 237 237 273 299 296 316
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Medical and dental staff1 497 542 613 658 685 673 725
HCHS qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff 1,928 2,152 2,163 2,300 2,231 2,320 2,407
Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust (PCT)²
Medical and dental staff¹ 43 46 49 54 55 38 57
GPs 419 430 436 452 445 437 449
HCHS qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff 949 934 1,017 1,036 981 991 1,100
GP practice nurses 237 237 237 273 299 296 316
¹ Excludes medical hospital practitioners and medical clinical assistants, most of whom are GPs working part time in hospitals have been excluded to avoid double counting.
² Gloucestershire PCT was formed in October 2006 from a complete merger of Cheltenham and Tewkesbury PCT, Cotswold and Vale PCT, and West Gloucestershire PCT. Figures from 2002-06 are an aggregate of these predecessor organisations.
Due to the high number of Trust mergers and the formation of PCTs in 2002 it is impossible to accurately map figures for these organisations prior to 2002.
GPs and GP practice nurses are only employed by PCTs.
Sources:
The NHS Information Centre for health and social care Non-Medical Workforce Census.
The NHS Information Centre for health and social care Medical and Dental Workforce Census.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
503 c481-2W; 308230
Session
2009-10
Subjects
Doctors Nurses Gloucester
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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