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Health Professions: Huddersfield

Volume 467: debated on Tuesday 13 November 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) other health service staff were employed in Huddersfield constituency (i) in 1997 and (ii) at the most recent date for which figures are available. (162545)

The information is not available in the requested format. Staff numbers for the relevant national health service organisations is set out in the following table:

30 September 199730 September 2006

Calderdale Healthcare NHS Trust

Huddersfield NHS Trust

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust

Kirklees Primary Care Trust

Total hospital and community health services NHS staff

2,911

3,444

5,495

1,367

Medical and dental staff

179

185

487

22

Total non-medical staff

2,798

3,259

5,008

1,345

Professionally qualified clinical staff

1,397

1,606

2,504

719

Support to clinical staff

875

940

1,729

229

Infrastructure support

526

711

773

397

Other

0

2

2

0

Note: In 2001 Calderdale Healthcare NHS Trust and Huddersfield NHS Trust merged to form the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust and hospital and community health service staff in Kirklees PCT. The organisations listed are those covering the Huddersfield area in the specified years. Due to restructuring in the NHS, it is not possible to say categorically that these figures are directly comparable. There were 262 general practitioners and 179 practice nurses recorded as working for Kirklees PCT in 2006. In 1997 these staff would have been recorded in Calderdale and Kirklees Health Authority, and it is not possible to break down their data to identify Kirklees alone. Sources: The Information Centre for health and social care Non-Medical Workforce Census and The Information Centre for health and social care Medical and Dental Workforce Census.