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Nurse Teachers

Volume 131: debated on Thursday 21 April 1988

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To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his answer of Friday 18 March regarding the shortfall of nurse teachers, whether his Department has access to data and figures collected by the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting on the shortfall in nurse teachers.

Information published by the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health

Senior hospital doctors (whole-time equivalent) per 100,000 in-patient cases treated: England
19791980198119821983198419851986
England222220222227220218215217
Northern217214220236223220220220
Yorkshire188181188194183178177178
Trent201200197206198198195200
East Anglian239224228242231228229226
North West Thames270269274242243239241240
North East Thames217215219244238232239240
South East Thames231233234232231223212220
South West Thames257260261250244238238245
Wessex216213208216211214214208
Oxford216214216230224231228233
South Western211213215218213209206205
West Midlands217215216220213209206212
Mersey210214211216207205203202
North Western198203204212206206200203
SHAs385385380387392408399405
Notes:
(1) Includes permanent paid, honorary and locum staff in the grades of consultant, associate specialist and hospital practitioner within the medical specialties.
(2) All figures have been rounded to the nearest whole number of the whole time equivalent.
(3) Because of the NHS restructuring in 1982 figures on in-patients cases treated for the four Thames regions and Special Health Authorities are not strictly comparable over the whole period.