Bill Wiggin – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Bill Wiggin on 2014-05-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many new members of (a) staff and (b) nursing staff have been taken on by the NHS in North Herefordshire in the last 12 months.

Dr Daniel Poulter

The information is available neither in the format requested nor specifically for the North Herefordshire area. Wye Valley NHS Trust provides health services across Herefordshire and further afield. 2gether NHS Foundation Trust provides social and mental health care services across Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.

Information on how many new members of staff and doctors and nursing staff have been taken on by Wye Valley NHS Trust and 2gether NHS Foundation Trust from January 2013 to January 2014 is shown in the following table:

	Joiners between January 2013 and January 2014
Total NHS staff (excluding Bank, Locums and Trainee Doctors):
Wye Valley NHS Trust	336
2gether NHS Foundation Trust	162
of which:
Hospital and Community Health Service doctors (excluding Locums and Trainees):
Wye Valley NHS Trust	9
2gether NHS Foundation Trust	8
Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff:
Wye Valley NHS Trust	120
2gether NHS Foundation Trust	37

Source:

Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), provisional monthly NHS workforce data

Notes:

1. Turnover data is based on headcount.

2. Figures are for staff that have joined from outside each NHS trust.

Monthly data:

1. As from 21 July 2010, the HSCIC has published experimental, provisional monthly NHS workforce data (experimental tag has been removed from 24 April 2012)

2. As expected with provisional data, some figures may be revised from month to month as issues are uncovered and resolved

3. The monthly workforce data is not directly comparable with the annual workforce census; it only includes those staff on the Electronic Staff Record i.e. it does not include Primary care staff or Bank staff. It also includes locum doctors (not counted in the annual census).

4. There are also new methods of presenting data (headcount methodology is different and there is now a role count). This information is available from September 2009 onwards at:

www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/provisionalmonthlyhchsworkforce

Data quality:

The HSCIC seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality. Where changes impact on figures already published, this is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.