Community Nurses: Manpower
Health
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Anne Milton (Shadow Minister, Health; Guildford, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many community nurses were working as (a) district nurses, (b) health visitors and (c) general practice nurses on the latest date for which figures are available.
Ann Keen (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health; Brentford & Isleworth, Labour)
The numbers of community nurses working as district nurses, health visitors and general practice nurses at
| Community nurses as at 30 September 2008 | Headcount |
| District Nurses | 10,446 |
| Health Visitors | 11,190 |
| Practice Nurses | 22,048 |
| Source: The NHS Information Centre for health and social care Non-Medical Workforce Census. | |