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Health Visitors: South East

Volume 507: debated on Thursday 11 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many health visitors have been employed in each primary care trust in the South East in each year since 1997. (321450)

The information is shown in the following table.

National health service hospital and community health services: Qualified health visiting staff in England by South East Coast and South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) areas and by organisation as at 30 September each specified year

Headcount

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

South East Coast and South Central SHA

941

2,006

2,016

2,006

1,911

1,646

1,552

1,473

South East Coast SHA

201

942

903

971

891

712

696

689

East Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust (PCT)

5P7

0

91

84

75

81

42

72

70

Eastern and Coastal Kent Teaching PCT

5QA

0

161

150

170

146

151

146

148

Hastings and Rother PCT

5P8

49

48

47

43

46

40

40

40

Medway PCT

5L3

0

71

71

89

85

69

65

58

Surrey PCT

5P5

0

260

236

240

242

200

179

163

West Kent PCT

5P9

111

143

158

154

135

43

49

91

West Sussex Teaching PCT

5P6

41

168

157

200

156

167

145

119

South Central SHA

740

1,064

1,113

1,035

1,020

934

856

784

Berkshire East Teaching PCT

5QG

29

104

100

100

101

96

94

78

Berkshire West PCT

5QF

115

116

117

113

114

111

109

87

Buckinghamshire PCT

5QD

165

178

181

182

176

133

106

103

Hampshire PCT

5QC

148

275

321

275

262

234

217

192

Isle of Wight Healthcare PCT1

5QT

30

29

28

2

19

16

16

19

Milton Keynes PCT

5CQ

49

71

67

54

63

66

64

58

Oxfordshire PCT

5QE

86

172

189

183

164

158

149

157

Portsmouth City Teaching PCT

5FE

43

53

49

51

53

52

53

48

Southampton City PCT

5L1

75

66

61

75

68

68

48

42

Notes:

1. 2001-08 figures are mapped to their current organisational structure.

2. 2000 and previous data do not provide comparative figures to the current organisational structures, and as such are not included in this table.

3. 1It appears that data provided in 2004 were incorrectly coded for this organisation and corrected in subsequent years.

4. Brighton and Hove PCT do not have any health visitors coded on their Non-Medical Census returns for the years provided.

5. Data Quality

The NHS Information Centre for health and social care seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.

Source:

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