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NHS: Gloucester

Volume 503: debated on Wednesday 6 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS (a) doctors and (b) nurses are employed in Gloucester; and what the equivalent figures were in 1997. (308230)

The information is not held in the format requested.

The number of national health service hospital and community health services staff in Gloucester for each specified staff group in each specified organisation as at 30 September 2002 to 30 September 2008, is given in the following table.

National health service hospital and community health services (HCHS): NHS staff in each specified staff group in each specified organisation as at 30 September each year

Headcount

Total specified organisations

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

Medical and dental staff1

540

588

662

712

740

711

782

General Practitioners (GPs)

419

430

436

452

445

437

449

HCHS qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff

2,877

3,086

3,180

3,336

3,212

3,311

3,507

GP practice nurses

237

237

237

273

299

296

316

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Medical and dental staff1

497

542

613

658

685

673

725

HCHS qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff

1,928

2,152

2,163

2,300

2,231

2,320

2,407

Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust (PCT)2

Medical and dental staff1

43

46

49

54

55

38

57

GPs

419

430

436

452

445

437

449

HCHS qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff

949

934

1,017

1,036

981

991

1,100

GP practice nurses

237

237

237

273

299

296

316

1 Excludes medical hospital practitioners and medical clinical assistants, most of whom are GPs working part time in hospitals have been excluded to avoid double counting.

2 Gloucestershire PCT was formed in October 2006 from a complete merger of Cheltenham and Tewkesbury PCT, Cotswold and Vale PCT, and West Gloucestershire PCT. Figures from 2002-06 are an aggregate of these predecessor organisations.

Due to the high number of Trust mergers and the formation of PCTs in 2002 it is impossible to accurately map figures for these organisations prior to 2002.

GPs and GP practice nurses are only employed by PCTs.

Sources:

The NHS Information Centre for health and social care Non-Medical Workforce Census.

The NHS Information Centre for health and social care Medical and Dental Workforce Census.