Health Professions: Lancashire

Mr. Evans
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) midwives are employed by the NHS per head of population in Ribble Valley constituency.

Ann Keen
The information is not held in the format requested. Information on workforce levels for East Lancashire Primary Care Trust (PCT), which is the main commissioner for the Ribble Valley population, is shown in the following table.

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|Organisation                                                                                                                                                                              |Doctors|Nurses|Midwives|
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|East Lancashire PCT                                                                                                                                                                       |273    |741   |3       |
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|1 Includes General Practitioners (GPs) and hospital and community health services medical and dental staff. GPs exclude retainers.Source:The Information Centre for health and social care|       |      |        |
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