Health Visitors
Health
Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent qualified health visitors he expects to be employed across the NHS in each month from April 2012 to April 2015.
Daniel Poulter (Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, Conservative)
The total number of full-time equivalent health visitors employed by national health service organisations in England in April 2012 was 8,396.
The currently planned total number employed will be 9,265 in April 2013, 10,822 in April 2014 and 12,336 in April 2015.
The monthly breakdown of planned health visitor numbers are not collected centrally.