West Hertfordshire NHS Acute Trust: Manpower Mike Penning To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent (a) medical consultants, (b) other medical staff, (c) nurses, (d) other professional healthcare staff, (e) administrative and clerical staff and (f) auxiliary staff were employed by West Herts NHS Acute Trust in each year since 1996-97. Ann Keen The information is set out in the following table. The most recent year for which data are available is 2006. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |1996 |1997 |1998 |1999 |2000 |2001 |2002 |2003 |2004 |2005 |2006 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Hospital and Community Health Services(HCHS) medical consultants |137 |153 |146 |145 |143 |161 |159 |156 |161 |153 |152 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |HCHS dental consultants |2 |4 |3 |2 |2 |2 |3 |2 |2 |2 |3 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Other HCHS medical staff |254 |291 |269 |276 |264 |267 |271 |267 |332 |320 |344 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Other HCHS dental staff |5 |6 |7 |8 |6 |1 |1 |1 |2 |5 |5 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff |1,362|1,326|1,177|1,184|1,091|1,259|1,176|1,301|1,321|1,208|1,237| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical staff |498 |493 |483 |483 |462 |475 |495 |467 |483 |384 |382 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Support to clinical staff |1,016|855 |879 |790 |740 |900 |919 |1,132|1,171|1,050|960 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |NHS infrastructure support |677 |512 |525 |359 |366 |481 |539 |574 |583 |583 |518 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Other staff or those with unknown classification |8 |2 |5 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 In 2000, Mount Vernon and Watford Hospitals and St. Albans and Hemel Hempstead NHS Trusts merged to form the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trusts. Figures prior to 2000 are an aggregate of these two predecessor organisations.Note:Full-time equivalent figures have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Data for 2007 are released on 14 March.Sources:The Information Centre for health and social care Medical and Dental Workforce Census, The Information Centre for health and social care Non-Medical Workforce Census| | | | | | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------