The information is shown in the following table.
Headcount 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Mid-Essex hospital services NHS trust 134 127 104 95 109 127 107 105 110 122 Note: More accurate validation processes in 2006 have resulted in the identification and removal of 9,858 duplicate non-medical staff records out of the total workforce figure of 1.3 million in 2006. Earlier years’ figures could not be accurately validated in this way and so will be slightly inflated. The level of inflation in earlier years' figures is estimated to be less than 1 per cent., of total across all non-medical staff groups for headcount figures (and negligible for full time equivalents). This should be taken into consideration when analysing trends over time. Source: The Information Centre for health and social care Non-Medical Workforce Census