PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health Professions: Hampshire (4 September 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of FTE (a) general practitioners, (b) other doctors and (c) nurses employed by the NHS in Hampshire in (i) 2010 and (ii) the most recent year for which figures are available.

Asked by:
Damian Hinds (Conservative)

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.

The following table shows the number of doctors and nurses and health visitors in Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as at May 2019, the latest available data, compared to recent years, full time equivalent (FTE) rounded.

	Doctors	Nurses and Health Visitors
May 2012	577	1,167
May 2013	590	1,172
May 2014	619	1,272
May 2015	640	1,299
May 2016	666	1,249
May 2017	673	1,277
May 2018	712	1,270
May 2019	718	1,311

Source: NHS Digital Workforce Statistics

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust came into being in January 2012 as a result of the integration of Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust, which achieved Foundation Trust status in 2006, and Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare Trust.

The following table below shows the number of general practitioners (GPs), excluding locums, nurses and other direct patient care staff working in general practice as of March 2016, earliest available data of the same month and March 2019, latest available data, in NHS North Hampshire CCG, NHS South Eastern Hampshire CCG, NHS West Hampshire CCG and NHS North East Hampshire and Farnham CCG. FTE rounded.

	March 2016	March 2019
All Regular GPs (excludes Locums)	729	729
Nurses	310	327
Direct Patient Care	212	233

Source: NHS Digital

GP locums are excluded as improvements have been made to GP locum recording methodology and figures are not comparable prior to December 2017.

Data prior to March 2016 has not been provided as improvements were made to the methodology for recording staff working in general practice in September 2015 and data prior to this is not comparable.

Answered by:
Chris Skidmore (Conservative)
9 September 2019