Speeches

Gareth Johnson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gareth Johnson on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) doctors and (b) nurses have been recruited by Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust in each of the last 10 years.

Ben Gummer

The information requested is not available in the format requested.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre advises the available data is based on all nurses and doctors who are paid through the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and complete ESR data of the quality required is only available from 2009.

Such information as is available is in the following table.

Numbers of new Joiners in the 12 month period from 30 September Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

2009-2010

2010-2011

2011-2012

2012-2013

2013-2014

2014-2015

NHS Hospital & Community Health Service (HCHS) Doctors

122

134

131

141

171

160

Nurses and health visitors

129

146

82

152

212

139

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, HCHS workforce statistics.

Notes:

  1. Turnover data is based on headcount.
  2. These joiners are to Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust and to the HCHS Doctors and Nurse & health visitor staff groups.
  3. Data is based on all nurses and doctors who are paid through the NHS ESR.
  4. Complete ESR data of the quality required is only available from 2009, which is why we provided the data for the past 6 instead of 10 years.
  5. These figures include junior doctors.
  6. Following a public consultation in 2015, categorisation of trusts and staff groups has changed therefore restricting comparability with previous publications.