NHS: Manpower Mike Penning To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) dentists were employed in the NHS in (i) full-time equivalent terms and (ii) headcount terms in (A) 1979, (B) 1997 and (C) the most recent period for which figures are available. Mr. Bradshaw This information is shown in the table. 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| |Number (headcount)9HC) and full-time equivalents| 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| |1979 |1997|2006|2007| 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| |HC |FTE|HC|FTE|HC|FTE|HC|FTE| 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|All NHS Doctors1, 2 |65,442 |5—|89,619|84,758|125,612|119,096|5—|5—| 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|HCHS medical and dental staff1 |42,380 |5—|60,230|57,099|90,243|85,975|5—|5—| 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|General Medical Practitioners (excluding retainers)2 |23,062 |5—|29,389|27,660|35,369|33,121|5—|5—| 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|Dentists3 |12,425 |5—|16,470|5—|6—|5—|21,041|5—| 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|Total Qualified Nursing staff4 |192,052 |161,359|318,856|256,093|398,335|322,062|5—|5—| 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|Qualified Nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff1 |190,243 |160,367|300,467|246,011|374,538|307,447|5—|5—| 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|GP Practice Nurses |1,809 |992|18,389|10,082|23,797|14,616|5—|5—| 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|1 Headcount figures exclude medical hospital practitioners and medical clinical assistants, most of whom are also GPs that work part-time in hospitals.2 GP retainers were first collected in 1999 and are omitted for comparability purposes3 Information as at 31 March 2007 is based on the new dental contractual arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006, and is not comparable with earlier information.Due to changes in coverage between the old and new contractual arrangements, there are some dentists working in trust-led dental services who were not previously included in the old figures. The national health service Business Services Authority Dental Services Division has estimated an upper bound of 578 dentists who fall in this category.The figures take no account of the level of service, if any, that each dentist provided.Numbers of dentists (headcount) have been provided as no whole-time equivalent information is available.4 Figures for 1979 are hospital staff only and are therefore not directly comparable with later yearsAll data as at 30 September except 1979 and 1997 GP practice nurse data as at 1 October.5 Denotes data not available.6 N/A| | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------