PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Nurses (5 March 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) acute, elderly and general nurses and (b) other qualified nurses have been employed in each NHS region in each Agenda for Change band in each year since 2009-10.

Asked by:
Debbie Abrahams (Labour)

The Health and Social Care Information Centre latest monthly workforce statistics show that there are now over 7,500 more nurses, midwives and health visitors working in the National Health Service than May 2010.

The attached table shows the number of nurses, midwives and health visitors and separately the number of acute, elderly and general nurses in each NHS region in each Agenda for Change band since 2009.

Answered by:
Dr Dan Poulter (Labour)
10 March 2015