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Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust: Nurses

Volume 467: debated on Thursday 15 November 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) nurses and (b) accident and emergency nurses were employed by Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Trust in each of the last 10 years. (162260)

The information is not held in the format requested. Although numbers of nursing and midwifery staff are recorded, the numbers of those working within accident and emergency cannot be separately identified.

The following table lists the number of qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff employed by Barnet and Chase Farm National Health Service Trust.

Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff1

As at 30 September each year

Number (headcount)

1997

1,560

1998

1,533

2000

1,440

2001

1,570

2002

1,711

2003

1,740

2004

1,731

2005

1,715

2006

1,692

1 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 work force 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. This should be taken into consideration when analysing trends over time.