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Scottish Office

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Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the hospital and community health services nurses who are (a) qualified, (b) unqualified, (c) midwives, (d) learner staff and (e) Project 2000 students, as whole-time equivalents, employed in each year since 1991. [18895] Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The information available is shown in the table. Nursing staff{1} by qualification Whole-time equivalent: at 30 September _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 Nursing staff{1} 47,838.3 47,981.7 47,775.2 47,726.3 47,766.9 Hospital{1} 42,610.6 42,842.7 42,664.1 42,545.2 42,458.9 Qualified 27,060.0 26,988.8 26,780.0 26,899.6 26,916.6 Unqualified 15,550.6 15,854.0 15,884.0 15,645.5 15,542.4 Community{1} 5,227.8 5,138.9 5,111.2 5,181.1 5,308.0 Qualified 4,716.1 4,643.4 4,617.5 4,646.7 4,730.2 Unqualified 511.7 495.5 493.7 534.3 577.7 Midwifery staff{2} 4,345.2 4,393.6 4,389.4 4,365.0 4,279.3 Midwives 2,765.4 2,783.2 2,814.4 2,804.6 2,745.8 Hospital 2,488.8 2,510.4 2,532.3 2,495.2 2,462.4 Community 276.7 272.7 282.1 309.4 283.4 Combined Duty Nurses{3} 533.0 516.6 499.1 480.0 439.1 Hospital maternity 1,046.8 1,093.8 1,075.9 1,080.4 1,094.4 staff{4} Qualified 182.9 215.4 223.9 253.0 311.6 Unqualified 864.0 878.5 852.0 827.4 782.8 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Nurses in training _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Hospital{5} 9,883.7 7,924.9 5,029.2 2,147.7 627.1 Community{5} 98.0 48.5 {7}35.2 {8}206.0 {8}245.0 P2000 students{6} -- 1,403 3,617 5,445 6,191 Programmes in midwifery -- 121 283 424 456 Other -- 1,282 3,334 5,021 5,735 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: {1} Excludes midwives, maternity nursing staff, combined duty nurses working with an element of midwifery, nurse teachers, nurses in training and P2000 students in nursing and midwifery. Some nursing staff included in the `hospital' category may in fact work in a community setting. {2} Excludes nurse teachers, nurses in training and P2000 students in nursing and midwifery. Some nursing staff included in the `hospital' category may in fact work in a community setting. {3} Midwives with combined duties including health visiting and district nursing. {4} Consists of nursing staff working in the midwifery specially without a midwifery qualification. {5} Nurses in training include staff on post-basic training. {6} Figures have been supplied by the National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland. Data are numbers at 31 October. {7} Under recorded. Some nurses in training have been unavoidably included with qualified grades. {8} Figures have been supplied by the National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland. Data are numbers at 31 October and include nurses in training who are not sponsored by the NHS. Some nurses in training have been unavoidably included with qualified grades. Source: National Manpower Statistics from payroll (NAMS), National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland, ISD (Scotland).

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

18895; 292 c67-8W

Session

1996-97

Subjects

Hospitals Nurses Staff Midwives Scotland Training Students Community nurses

Contains statistics

Yes