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Dept of Health

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Mr. Tony Clarke: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much money was spent by the NHS on agency staff in Northampton south in each year since 1997. [186519] Dr. Ladyman: The information for the national health service organisations serving the Northampton south area is shown in the following table. Expenditure on total non NHS staff: 1997-98 to 2002-03(£) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Trust name 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 Northampton General 279,396 560,994 668,454 949,289 2,173,143 3,254,519 Hospital NHS Trust Kettering General 147,376 106,148 208,977 458,423 903,261 1,346,960 Hospital NHS Trust Northampton Community 803,837 1,221,668 1,057,035 1,266,031 n/a n/a Healthcare NHS Trust Rockingham Forest NHS 265,930 902,672 806,521 1,384,405 n/a n/a Trust Northampton Healthcare n/a n/a n/a n/a 4,121,279 4,649,625 NHS Trust Daventry and South n/a n/a n/a 63,534 67,404 100,000 Northamptonshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) Northampton PCT n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 202,315 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Sources: 1. Annual financial returns of NHS trusts, 1997-98 to 2002-03. 2. Annual financial returns of PCTs, 2000-01 to 2002-03 Hospital, Public Health Medicine and Community Health Services (HCHS): Medical and dental staff, and Non-Medical within Northampton General Hospital National Health Service Trust Number (headcount) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. As at 30 September each year 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 Medical and Dental Staff 226 241 248 264 283 (Doctors) Non-Medical Staff (Nurses) n/a 2,628 2,601 2,581 2,799 Of which Professionally qualified n/a 1,411 1,414 1,427 1,548 clinical staff Qualified nurses n/a 1,141 1,149 1,156 1,233 Qualified Scientific and n/a 270 265 271 315 Technical staff Support to clinical staff n/a 893 876 766 879 Support to doctors and n/a 738 724 616 719 nurses Support to Scientific and n/a 155 152 150 160 Technical staff NHS infrastructure support n/a 324 311 388 372 Central functions n/a 120 130 125 120 Hotel property and estate n/a 145 127 204 193 staff Managers and senior n/a 59 54 59 59 managers _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number (headcount) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. As at 30 September each year 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Medical and Dental Staff 283 279 293 298 312 (Doctors) Non-Medical Staff (Nurses) 2,805 2,869 3,023 3,101 3,366 Of which Professionally qualified 1,505 1,529 1,553 1,540 1,611 clinical staff Qualified nurses 1,192 1,192 1,202 1,180 1,237 Qualified Scientific and 313 337 351 360 374 Technical staff Support to clinical staff 861 901 979 1,068 1,280 Support to doctors and 699 728 779 867 1,051 nurses Support to Scientific and 162 173 200 201 229 Technical staff NHS infrastructure support 439 439 491 493 475 Central functions 99 107 100 110 140 Hotel property and estate 273 265 315 286 261 staff Managers and senior 67 67 76 97 74 managers _________________________________________________________________________________________________. n/a--not applicable Sources: Department of Health medical and dental workforce census Department of Health Non-Medical Workforce Census

Secondary information

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Written question

Reference

186519; 424 c1088-90W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Agency nurses Doctors Health services NHS Temporary employment Northampton Locums

Contains statistics

Yes

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