The latest available national health service workforce figures are for September 2005. At that time 3,645 qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff were employed by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. This trust was formed in 2000, through the merger of the three NHS trusts of Leicester Royal Infirmary, Glenfield hospital and Leicester general hospital. Figures for the three individual hospitals are not available post-2000.
In September 1997, the number of qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff employed by the three hospitals is as follows:
Number Leicester Royal Infirmary NHS Trust 1,435 Glenfield Hospital NHS Trust 578 Leicester General Hospital NHS Trust 832 Total 2,845 Source: The Information Centre for health and social care Non-Medical Workforce Census.