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Chesterfield Primary Care Trust: Manpower

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 27 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) nurses, (b) midwives and (c) doctors were working in the NHS in (i) Chesterfield primary care trust and (ii) Derbyshire county primary care trust in each year since 1997. (187036)

The information is not available in the format requested. However, the number of staff working within Derbyshire County Primary Care Trust1 (PCTs) in each year from 2002-2006 is shown in the following table.

1 In 2006 Derbyshire PCT was formed from a complete merger of Amber Valley PCT, Chesterfield PCT, Derbyshire Dales and South Derbyshire PCT, Erewash PCT, High Peak and Dales PCT and North Eastern Derbyshire PCT. Figures prior to 2006 are an aggregate of these predecessor organisations. The Midwives for the areas covered by these PCTs are all employed by the Chesterfield Royal NHS Foundation Trust.

As at 30 September each year

Number

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

All Staff1,2

1,991

2,011

2,126

2,192

2,102

All Doctors1, 2

452

475

494

505

507

Hospital and Community

Health Services Medical and Dental2

50

51

53

53

55

General practitioners (GPs) (excluding retainers and registrars2

402

424

441

452

452

Qualified nursing staff3

1,276

1,282

1,331

1,394

1,271

Practice Nurses

263

254

301

293

324

1 Excludes medical hospital practitioners and medical clinical assistants, most of whom are GPs working part time in hospitals. 2 General medical practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars) includes GP providers and GP Others. 3 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. Source: The Information Centre for health and social care Medical and Dental, Non-Medical and general and personal medical services Workforce Census.