Non-medical Workforce Census

Mr. Lansley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health which types of staff work in the community services subgroup of the NHS non-medical workforce census, published on 24 April 2006.

Ms Rosie Winterton
The information requested concerns community matron, district nurses, health visitors, school nursing service nurses and other qualified community service nurses. In addition there are other nurses working in the community: practice nurses, community psychiatric nurses and community learning disability nurses. The total of these community nurses in September 2005 was 105,753 compared with 77,249 in 1997.

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|Headcount                                                                                 |
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|                                                                                          |Total community services|Community services|School nursing|
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|Total qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff                              |63,257|60,370|2,887|
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|Nurse consultant                                                                          |127|127|0|
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|Modern matron                                                                             |271|267|4|
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|Manager                                                                                   |1,392|1,369|23|
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|Registered nurse—children.                                                                |333|333|0|
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|Health visitor                                                                            |12,818|12,818|0|
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|District nurses                                                                           |12,067|12,067|0|
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|School nurses who hold a post registration school nursing qualification                   |943|0|943|
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|Other first level                                                                         |33,159|31,385|1,774|
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|Other second level                                                                        |2,147|2,004|143|
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|Source:The Information Centre for health and social care non-medical workforce census 2005|
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