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Midwives: Shropshire

Volume 508: debated on Wednesday 7 April 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many midwives have been employed by Shropshire NHS Trust in each year since 1997. (325405)

The information is not available in the format requested. The number of registered midwives employed by the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust in each year since 1997 has been set out in the following table:

NHS hospital and community health services: Registered midwives in the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, as at 30 September each year

Headcount

1997

194

1998

208

1999

210

2000

209

2001

209

2002

225

2003

237

2004

232

2005

249

2006

228

2007

234

2008

236

2009

217

Notes: 1. Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust was formed in 2003 from a complete merger of Princess Royal Hospital NHS Trust and Royal Shrewsbury Hospitals NHS Trust. Figures from 1997-2003 are an aggregate of these predecessor organisations. 2. Data Quality: The 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.