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Midwives: Lancashire

Volume 459: debated on Friday 20 April 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many midwives were employed in hospitals in Lancashire in each of the last five years. (126221)

The information requested is shown in the table.

National health service hospital and community health services: Qualified midwifery staff in each specified organisation as at 30 September

Headcount

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

RVY

127

113

116

116

129

Morecambe Bay Hospitals NHS Trust1

RTX

159

159

149

356

177

Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Care3

RMB

167

168

n/a

n/a

n/a

Blackpool Victoria2

RMR

176

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust2

RXL

n/a

150

131

126

125

Burnley Healthcare NHS Trust3

REU

106

109

n/a

n/a

n/a

Chorley and South Ribble NHS Trust4

RJU

37

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust3

RXR

n/a

n/a

283

303

316

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust4

RXN

n/a

194

149

177

186

Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust4

RMF

165

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a = Not applicable

1 In 2004 Morecambe Bay Hospitals NHS submitted an incorrect bank nursing return. The Trust alerted us to this several months after the publication of the Census, by which time it was too late to amend the results. Nursing figures from this Trust for 2004 are inaccurate.

2. Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust was formed in April 2002 from a merger of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Community Health Services NHS Trust and Blackpool Victoria Hospital NHS Trust.

3 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust was formed in April 2003 from a merger of Burnley Health Care NHS Trust and Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Care NHS Trust.

4 Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was formed in August 2002 from a merger of Chorley and South Ribble NHS Trust and Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Source:

The Information Centre for health and social care non-medical workforce census.