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Health Professions: Kent

Answer

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in GP surgeries, local authorities or other providers.

The following table shows the number of nurses and health visitors, midwives and mental health staff as at September 2019, the latest available data at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, Kent Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, NHS Medway CCG and NHS West Kent CCG, full time equivalent (FTE).

	Nurses and health visitors	Midwives	Mental health staff
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust	811	0	1,625
Kent Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	1,084	0	68
Medway NHS Foundation Trust	1,020	159	21
NHS Medway CCG	5	0	0
NHS West Kent CCG	4	0	0

Note:

CCGs are National Health Service bodies responsible for the planning and commissioning of health care services for their local area. They are made up of a governing body directly employed by the CCG and local general practitioner (GP) practice members within the area of the CCG.

The following table shows the number of doctors, nurses and other direct patient care staff employed in general practice as at September 2019 within the areas NHS Medway CCG and NHS West Kent CCG. These are in addition to those nurses employed directly by the CCG in the previous table. The figures presented include GP registrars and GP locums, FTE.

	All general practitioners	All nurses in general practice	All direct patient care staff in general practice
NHS Medway CCG	115	69	69
NHS West Kent CCG	250	111	118

Note:

Figures shown here do not include general practice staff working in prisons, army bases, educational establishments, specialist care centres including drug rehabilitation centres, walk-in centres and other alternative settings. figures contain estimates, for practices that did not provide fully valid general medical practice GP, nurse or direct patient care staff records.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

1719

Session

2019-21

Subjects

Health professions Kent

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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