Health written question – answered at on 22 February 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many nutritionists the national health service employed in (a) Southend, (b) Essex and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years for which information is available.
The latest published annual national health service workforce census does not separately identify the number of nutritionists who work in the NHS because nutritionists are grouped together with dieticians in the census.
There were 10 dieticians employed by Southend Hospitals NHS Trust in 2006, the latest period for which figures are available. The figures for the previous five years are nine in 2005, 10 in 2004 and six in both 2003 and 2002.
There were 81 dieticians employed by NHS trusts in Essex in 2006, 73 in 2005, 72 in 2004, 63 in 2003 and 58 in 2002.
There were 3,413 qualified dieticians employed in the NHS in England in 2006, an increase of 1,240 (57 per cent.) since September 1997. There were 3,407 employed in 2005, 3,235 in 2004, 3,122 in 2003 and 2,906 in 2002.
The following table gives the breakdown:
NHS hospital and community health services: Qualified dietetics staff in England, East of England Strategic Health Authority and each specified organisation as at 30 September each specified year | |||||
H eadcount | |||||
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |
England | 2,906 | 3,122 | 3,235 | 3,407 | 3,413 |
O f which: | |||||
East of England Strategic Health Authority | 286 | 305 | 325 | 339 | 332 |
Of which: | |||||
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals | |||||
NHS Foundation Trust | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 12 |
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust | 9 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 11 |
North East Essex primary care trust (PCT) | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
North Essex Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
South East Essex PCT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South West Essex Teaching PCT | 12 | 11 | 16 | 17 | 19 |
Southend Hospital NHS Trust | 6 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 10 |
West Essex PCT | 18 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 23 |
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Thurrock PCT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Notes: In October 2006 various mergers took place; Colchester PCT and Tendring PCT merged to form North East Essex PCT. Basildon PCT, Thurrock PCT, Billericay, Brentwood and Wickford PCT merged to form South West Essex PCT. Epping Forest PCT, Harlow PCT and Uttlesford PCT merged to form West Essex PCT. The figures have been aggregated accordingly by the current organisation title. More accurate validation processes in 2006 have resulted in the identification and removal of 9,858 duplicate non-medical staff records out of the total workforce figure of 1.3 million in 2006. Earlier years' figures could not be accurately validated in this way and so will be slightly inflated. The level of inflation in earlier years' figures is estimated to be less than 1 per cent. of total across all non-medical staff groups for headcount figures (and negligible for full-time equivalents). This should be taken into consideration when analysing trends over time. Source: The Information Centre for health and social care Non-Medical Workforce Census. |
The information on dieticians employed in the NHS in Wales is not collected by the Department. The information will be available from the devolved administration in Wales.
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