Nurses: Manpower
Health
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2009
Anne Milton (Shadow Minister, Health; Guildford, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health
(1) how many district nurses are employed by (a) primary care trusts, (b) acute trusts and (c) GP practices;
(2) how many district nurses were working in (a) general practices, (b) hospitals and (c) other health settings.
Ann Keen (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health; Brentford & Isleworth, Labour)
District nurses are employed by national health service trusts and NHS primary care trusts. They are not employed by general practices, hospitals or in any other health care setting.
The following table gives the number of district nurses employed in these two organisations as at the last work force census,
| District nurse level 1 | District nurse level 2 | |
| Trusts | 53 | 27 |
| Primary Care Trust | 7,607 | 816 |
| Total | 7,659 | 843 |