Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) hospital nurses, (b) junior hospital doctors and (c) other nurses were employed in the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust in (i) 2005-06 and (ii) 2006-07. (129624)

[holding answer 23 March 2007]: The information is not collected centrally in the form requested. However, the following table shows doctors in training alongside nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff figures as at 30 September 2005.

*Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Doctors in training and nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff within Essex Rivers Healthcare National Health Service Trust*
Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust as at 30 September 2005	Number (headcount)
All medical and dental staff	330
Of which:
Doctors in training	170
All Nursing staff	1,531
Of which:
Qualified nurses	1,100
Sources: The Information Centre for health and social care medical and dental workforce census. The Information Centre for health and social care non-medical workforce census.

Volume 459: debated on Wednesday 18 April 2007