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NHS Direct: Nurses

Volume 469: debated on Tuesday 11 December 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 19 November 2007, Official Report, column 612WA, on NHS Direct, how many (a) health advisers and (b) nurse advisers were employed at NHS Direct in each month. (169876)

This is a matter for NHS Direct NHS Trust. They have provided the data in the following table.

Month

Nurse advisers

Health advisers

November 2005

1,043

679

December 2005

1,035

662

January 2006

1,022

652

February 2006

1,014

653

March 2006

998

649

April 2006

989

649

May 2006

960

632

June 2006

942

611

July 2006

916

584

August 2006

911

570

September 2006

879

568

October 2006

869

540

November 2006

843

539

December 2006

810

532

January 2007

800

538

February 2007

861

617

March 2007

933

656

April 2007

858

656

May 2007

836

607

June 2007

830

602

July 2007

834

574

August 2007

817

572

September 2007

810

591