The information requested has been set out in the following table.
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 All HCHS staff 3,596 3,660 3,504 3,517 3,732 3,224 2,842 3,111 3,247 3,302 3,519 All Medical and Dental staff 215 261 274 283 281 258 237 294 320 344 370 Medical and Dental consultants 72 102 98 110 109 120 113 119 131 149 155 Other Medical and Dental staff 143 159 176 172 171 138 124 174 189 195 215 Total non-medical staff 3,381 3,399 3,230 3,234 3,451 2,967 2,605 2,817 2,927 2,958 3,149 Professionally qualified clinical staff 1,704 1,771 1,667 1,707 1,840 1,476 1,270 1,335 1,393 1,430 1,539 Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff 1,310 1,362 1,235 1,268 1,375 1,132 915 948 990 1,023 1,111 Qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical staff 394 409 431 438 465 344 355 387 402 407 428 Qualified allied health professions 223 228 246 245 257 154 169 187 195 194 206 Qualified healthcare scientists n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 94 98 105 113 Other qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical (ST and T) 171 181 186 193 208 189 186 106 109 109 109 Support to clinical staff 1,075 1,021 974 945 1,014 936 788 885 908 908 1,009 Support to doctors and nursing staff 976 915 866 832 887 783 605 688 707 696 793 Support to ST and T staff 99 105 108 113 128 153 183 197 201 212 217 NHS infrastructure support 597 602 583 576 591 554 548 597 626 621 600 Central functions 176 166 155 190 208 171 183 196 215 202 184 Hotel, property and estates 331 344 331 290 291 299 286 304 311 320 302 Managers and senior managers 90 92 97 96 92 84 79 97 100 99 114 Other staff or those with unknown classification 5 6 6 7 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 n/a = not applicable Notes: 1. It is not possible to identify staff that were transferred to Selby and York Primary Care Trust in 2001. 2. Full time equivalent figures are rounded to the nearest whole number. Source: Information Centre for health and social care Non-Medical Workforce Census. The Information Centre for health and social care Medical and Dental Workforce Census.