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Midwives

Answer

There is no central collection of the number of vacancies of midwives and supervisors of midwives in each national health service trust. The Department of Health is able to provide data about the number of job advertisements placed on NHS Jobs by employers in the NHS.

The following table shows number of adverts as at 31 October 2013 for midwives by NHS trust. Only Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust advertised a vacancy for the role of supervisor of midwives.

NHS trust	Number of adverts
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	1
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	1
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	1
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust	1
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	1
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	1
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	2
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust	2
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust	1
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	1
Croydon Health Services	2
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	2
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust	4
North Middlesex University Hospitals NHS Trust	1
North West London Hospitals NHS Trust	2
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	1
West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	1
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust	2
East Cheshire NHS Trust	1
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust	3
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	2
NHS Professionals—Specialist Nursing and Midwives	2
Isle of Wight NHS Trust	1
Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	1
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust	1
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust	1
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust	1
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	1
Medway NHS Foundation Trust	2
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	1
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	1
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust	2
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	1
South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	2
Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board	1
Hywel Dda Health Board	1
Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust	1
Mid Staffs NHS Foundation Trust	1
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust	1
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust	1
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	3
Wye Valley NHS Trust	1
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	1
York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	2
Note: The numbers produced are worked out from those adverts that are in the ‘Nursing’ or ‘Nursing and Midwifery Registered’ staff groups and have 'midwife' or ‘midwives’ in the job title. Source: Data gathered from NHS Jobs 31 October 2013.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

173467; 569 cc625-7W

Session

2013-14

Subjects

Midwives Vacancies

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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