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Dept of Health

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Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent (a) doctors and consultants and (b) nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff there were at (i) Southend and (ii) Basildon hospitals in each year since 1996. [190970] Dr. Ladyman: The information requested is collected by national health service trust. Figures for Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Southend Hospitals NHS Trust are shown in the table. All doctors, consultants and nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff within Essex strategic health authority (SHA) and selected organisations Whole-time equivalents (WTEs) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. September June 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 All Doctors1 Essex SHA total 1,979 2,115 2,143 2,202 2,160 2,162 2,318 2,395 2-- Basildon and Thurrock 188 203 209 216 199 224 237 251 2-- University Hospital NHS Trust Southend Healthcare NHS 228 251 262 267 219 270 279 305 2-- Trust Consultants Essex SHA total 412 453 463 471 484 499 559 582 632 Basildon and Thurrock 63 64 65 60 57 75 89 93 101 University Hospital NHS Trust Southend Hospital NHS 80 89 87 90 99 95 104 111 116 Trust Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff Essex SHA total 5,828 6,010 5,937 6,018 6,096 6,326 6,767 6,858 2-- Basildon and Thurrock 655 678 610 626 599 646 831 834 2-- University Hospital NHS Trust Southend Hospital NHS 701 711 711 751 824 793 887 931 2-- Trust _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Figures calculated using hospital and community health services (HCHS) medical and dental data and general practitioners data. 2 Denotes not available. This is due to data being taken from the medical and dental mini census which collected consultants only. Notes: 1. General practitioners include general medical service (GMS) practitioners (excluding retainers), personal medical service (PMS) practitioners and GPs. 2. Registrars WTE data has been estimated using the results from the 1992-93 general medical practitioner workload survey; full time equals 1.00 wte; three quarter time equals 0.69 wte; job share equals 0.65 wte; half time equals 0.60 wte. 3. Figures are rounded to the nearest whole-number. Sources: Department of Health general and personal medical services statistics, data as at 30 September 2000-03 and 1 October previous years. Department of Health medical and dental workforce census, data as at 30 September each year, except 2004 which is at 30 June. Department of Health non-medical workforce census, data as at 30 September each year.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

190970; 425 c493-4W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Consultants Doctors Health visitors Nurses Staff Midwives Basildon University Hospital Southend University Hospital

Contains statistics

Yes

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