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Dept of Health

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Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) doctors and (b) nurses were employed by (i) the Nottingham City Primary Care Trust, (ii) the Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust, (iii) the Queen's Medical Centre NHS Trust and (iv) other bodies (A) on 1 April 2000 and (B) on the latest date for which figures are available. [211368] Dr. Ladyman: The information requested is shown in the table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2000 2003 Doctors Nurses Doctors Nurses Trent Strategic Health 4,380 16,289 4,844 18,922 Authority (SHA) area Nottingham City: Central 51 41 n/a n/a Primary Care Group (PCG) Nottingham City: North and 76 57 n/a n/a West PCG Nottingham City: South and 59 49 n/a -- East PCG Nottingham Health Authority 16 -- n/a n/a Nottingham Community Health 55 884 n/a n/a National Health Service Trust Nottingham Healthcare NHS 114 765 n/a n/a Trust Nottingham City Primary Care n/a n/a 192 853 Trust Trent SHA n/a n/a 6 n/a Nottingham City Hospital NHS 313 1,508 421 1,770 Trust Queens Medical Centre, 555 1,787 724 2,040 Nottingham University NHS Trust Total specified 1,239 5,091 1,343 4,663 organisations _________________________________________________________________________________________________. n/a = not applicable. Notes: All NHS doctors (1) and qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff, including practice nurses employed by unrestricted principals and equivalents (UPEs) (2), in the Trent SHA area and each specified organisation as at 30 September each year. 1. All doctors includes all practitioners (excluding retainers) and hospital and community health services (HCHS) medical and dental staff. HCHS medical and dental staff excludes medical hospital practitioners and medical clinical assistants, most of whom are also general practitioners working part time in hospitals. All practitioners (excluding retainers) include general medical service (GMS) unrestricted principals, personal medical service (PMS) contracted GPs, PMS salaried GPs, restricted principals, assistants, GP registrars, salaried doctors (para. 52 SFA), PMS other, flexible career scheme GPs and GP returners. 2. UPEs include GMS unrestricted principals, PMS contracted GPs and PMS salaried GPs. Sources: Department of Health non-medical workforce census. Department of Health QMS and PMS statistics. Department of Health medical and dental workforce census.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

211368; 430 c888W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Doctors NHS Nurses Staff Nottingham

Contains statistics

Yes

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