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Midwives: Manpower

Volume 502: debated on Wednesday 9 December 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent midwives were in post at each hospital in the North West providing maternity services in each of the last five years. (304668)

The information is not available in the format requested. Non-medical work force census data are collected by trust, so hospital level data are not available. The information that is available is shown in the following table:

National health service hospital and community health services: Qualified midwives in the maternity services area of work in the North West Strategic Health Authority (SHA) area by organisation as at 30 September each year (as full-time equivalents)

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

North West SHA area

3,242

3,085

3,130

3,103

3,016

Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust

103

105

91

85

92

Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust

153

156

149

132

131

Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Primary Care Trust (PCT)

1

1

0

0

0

Bury PCT

0

0

0

0

0

Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT

0

0

1

1

1

Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust

183

199

220

264

262

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

106

103

100

93

95

Cumbria and Lancashire SHA

1

1

0

0

0

East Cheshire NHS Trust

70

71

63

66

61

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

245

254

248

229

212

East Lancashire PCT

0

0

1

1

1

Halton and St. Helens PCT

0

0

27

24

25

Halton PCT

28

26

0

0

0

Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT

0

0

1

1

1

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

143

148

150

146

167

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

277

281

278

267

268

Manchester PCT

0

0

0

1

1

Mersey Care NHS Trust

3

0

0

0

0

Morecambe Bay Hospitals NHS Trust

306

129

136

132

123

North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust

100

104

101

104

104

North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

127

119

117

121

116

North West Strategic Health Authority

0

0

1

0

0

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

335

326

346

346

333

Rochdale PCT

0

1

0

0

0

Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust

98

98

100

98

104

South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust

103

113

115

120

120

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

93

99

93

90

96

St. Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust

108

104

106

104

107

Stockport NHS Trust

131

138

145

143

141

Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust

112

104

107

111

103

The Mid Cheshire Hospital NHS Trust

97

96

100

106

108

The Wirral Hospital NHS Trust

148

154

166

153

74

Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust

62

58

65

62

63

West Cheshire PCT

0

0

0

0

1

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust

109

98

105

103

108

Note:

Full time equivalent figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.

Source:

The NHS information Centre for health and social care