asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the numbers of staff employed by the National Health Service in England expressed as wholetime equivalents as well as actual full-time and part-time numbers.
The information requested is shown in the table.
NHS directly employed staff as at 30 September 19851 England
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Whole time equivalent2
| Numbers2
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Full-time
| Part-time
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| 812,800 | 605,900 | 368,000 |
Source: DHSS Annual Censuses of NHS Medical and Non-Medical Manpower. | ||
1 Includes hospital practitioners and part-time medical/dental officers (clinical assistants). There are 377 (numbers) and 60ยท7 (whole-time equivalent) medical and dental locums whom it is not possible to separately identify as working full time or part time. These staff have been excluded. Agency nursing and midwifery staff are included. | ||
2 Figures are independently rounded to nearest one hundred. | ||