Physiotherapists
Health
Ben Chapman (Wirral South, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many new NHS jobs have been created in physiotherapy in (a) Liverpool, (b) Wirral and (c) Cheshire in each of the last five years.
Rosie Winterton (Minister of State (Health Services), Department of Health; Doncaster Central, Labour)
The information is not available in the format requested. The table shows the number of qualified physiotherapy staff working in the former Cheshire and Merseyside strategic health authority area.
| National health service hospital and community health services: qualified physiotherapy staff as at 30 September 2001 to 2005 | |
| Headcount | |
| 2001 | 901 |
| 2002 | 915 |
| 2003 | 942 |
| 2004 | 1,027 |
| 2005 | 1,112 |
| Notes: The Information Centre for health and social care, non-medical workforce census | |