Health Services: Lancashire
Health
Written answers and statements, 4 November 2009
Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) doctors and (b) nurses were registered as working in each primary care trust serving Lancashire and their predecessors in (i) 1997 and (ii) on the most recent date for which figures are available.
Ann Keen (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health; Brentford & Isleworth, Labour)
The information is not available in the format requested. The following table shows the number of doctors and qualified nursing staff working at the Central Lancashire Primary Care Trust (PCT), as at
| All doctors and qualified nursing staff at the Central Lancashire PCT, as at 30 September each year | ||
| Numbers (headcount) | ||
| 2002 | 2008 | |
| All doctors(1) | 282 | 327 |
| All general practitioners (GP) | 266 | 285 |
| Hospital Community Health Services (HCHS) medical and dental staff | 16 | 42 |
| All qualified nursing staff | 794 | 937 |
| Qualified HCHS nursing staff | 630 | 784 |
| GP practice nurses | 164 | 153 |
| (1 )Excludes medical hospital practitioners and medical clinical assistants, most of whom are GPs working part-time in hospitals. Note: Central Lancashire PCT was formed on 1 October 2006, following the merger of the Preston, Chorley and Ribble and West Lancashire PCTs. Source: The Information Centre for health and social care. | ||