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Health Professions: Lancashire

Volume 480: debated on Wednesday 8 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) midwives are employed by the NHS per head of population in Ribble Valley constituency. (222953)

The information is not held in the format requested. Information on workforce levels for East Lancashire Primary Care Trust (PCT), which is the main commissioner for the Ribble Valley population, is shown in the following table.

NHS doctors1, nurses and midwives within specified organisations as at 30 September 2007

Organisation

Doctors

Nurses

Midwives

East Lancashire PCT

273

741

3

1 Includes General Practitioners (GPs) and hospital and community health services medical and dental staff. GPs exclude retainers.

Source:

The Information Centre for health and social care