Workforce planning is a matter for local determination as local workforce planners are best placed to assess the health care needs of their local population. The Department continues to ensure the frameworks are in place to enable effective local workforce planning.
The information requested is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table:
2006 2007 2008 Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust All medical and dental staff 47 47 47 Consultant 10 12 15 All other grades 37 35 32 All qualified maternity services nurses 310 322 331 Nurse Consultant 1 1 1 Modern Matron 5 4 7 Manager 3 3 1 Registered nurse—Children 24 18 18 Registered midwife 243 252 266 Other 1st level 30 40 35 Other 2nd level 4 4 3 Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust All medical and dental staff 40 35 39 Consultant 11 9 14 All other grades 29 26 25 All qualified maternity services nurses 132 98 118 Modern Matron 0 0 4 Registered midwife 131 97 113 Other 2nd level 1 1 1 North West London Hospitals NHS Trust All medical and dental staff 46 46 44 Consultant 11 13 12 All other grades 35 33 32 All qualified maternity services nurses 230 229 250 Modern matron 0 0 5 Registered nurse—children 40 41 117 Registered midwife 116 120 117 Other 1st level 68 61 80 Other 2nd level 2 2 6 Notes: 1. Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust includes the following hospitals: Barnet General hospital, Chase Farm hospital, Edgware Community hospital, Finchley Memorial hospital and Potters Bar hospital. 2. Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust includes the following hospitals: Queen Mary’s hospital, Royal Free hospital, and the Royal Throat, Nose and Ear hospital. 3. The NHS Information Centre for health and social care is aware of the apparent drop in the number of midwives for this organisation in 2007. This is due to the inclusion of bank staff, which dropped to zero in 2007. The number of permanent midwives employed by the trust has remained steady in each year, at 92 in 2006, 97 in 2007 and 95 in 2008. 4. North West London Hospitals NHS Trust includes the following hospitals: Central Middlesex hospital, Northwick Park hospital and St. Mark’s. 5. Workforce statistics are compiled from data sent by more than 300 NHS trusts and primary care trusts in England. The NHS Information Centre for health and social care liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data. Processing methods and procedures are continually being updated to improve data quality. Where this happens any impact on figures already published will be assessed but unless this is significant at national level they will not be changed. Where there is impact only at detailed or local level this will be footnoted in relevant analyses. Source: The NHS Information Centre for health and social care Non-Medical Workforce Census, and The Information Centre for health and social care Medical and Dental Workforce Census.