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Medical Staff: Gateshead and Blaydon

Volume 454: debated on Monday 11 December 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many extra (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) other health service staff have been employed in (i) Gateshead primary care trust and (ii) Blaydon constituency since 1997. (105783)

The information is not available in the format requested. However, the following table shows the numbers of NHS staff in the Gateshead PCT by main staff group as at 30 September each specified year.

Headcount

2002

2003

2004

2005

All staff

1,173

1,241

1,278

1,393

All Doctors

147

151

162

161

All Medical and Dental staff1

12

13

15

15

All GPs2

135

138

147

146

Practice staff3

452

459

435

439

Practice Nurses

104

109

102

112

Non-Medical staff total

574

631

681

793

Professionally qualified clinical staff

334

353

381

450

Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff

230

237

253

306

Qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical staff

104

116

128

144

Qualified Allied Health Professions

74

87

91

102

Other Qualified Scientific, therapeutic and technical staff

30

29

37

42

Support to clinical staff

165

199

211

238

Support to doctors and nursing staff

156

176

187

217

Support to ST&T staff

9

23

24

21

NHS infrastructure support

73

79

89

105

Central functions

43

35

34

47

Hotel, property and estates

1

1

2

3

Managers and senior managers

29

43

53

55

Other staff or those with unknown classification

2

0

0

0

1 Excludes medical Hospital Practitioners and medical Clinical Assistants, most of whom are GPs working part time in hospitals.

2 All Practitioners includes Contracted GPs, GMS Others, PMS Others, GP Registrars and GP Retainers.

3 Practice Staff includes Practice Nurses, Direct Patient Care, Admin and Clerical and Other. Data covers: NHS Staff directly employed by the PCT; and GP practices who are commissioned by the PCT.

Sources:

The Information Centre for health and social care Medical and Dental Workforce Census.

The Information Centre for health and social care General and Personal Medical Services Statistics