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Northern Ireland Office

Answer

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many full-time (a) nurses and (b) administrators are employed by the NHS in Northern Ireland. [187805] Angela Smith: The information requested is as follows. Number of full-time nurses employed within all NI HPSS 1 organisations as at 30 June 2004 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Nursing staff group Headcount Qualified Nurses 8,544 Unqualified Nurses 2,513 Total 11,057 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Health and Personal Social Services. Note: Bank staff who cover for staffing shortfalls and fluctuating workloads in order to maintain service delivery have been removed from these figures. Student nurses have also been removed. Number of full-time administration and clerical staff employed within all NI HPSS1 organisations as at 30 June 2004 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Administration and Clerical staff group Headcount Clerical and Admin 6,806 Manager 728 Senior Manager 1,011 Senior Executives 166 Board Member 151 Total 8,862 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Health and Personal Social Services. Note: Bank staff who cover for staffing shortfalls and fluctuating workloads in order to maintain service delivery have been removed from these figures.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

424 c1486-7W;424 c1484-5W; 187805

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Administration Health services NHS Northern Ireland Nurses Staff Office workers

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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