Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered on 13th January 2021.
Andrew Griffith
Conservative, Arundel and South Downs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional nurses have been recruited to (a) Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust and (b) Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust since December 2019.
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.
It is usual to provide year-on-year figures due to changes in the number of doctors throughout the year being linked to the recruitment and training cycles. The following table shows the change in the number of nurses and health visitors employed in Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust and Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust from both September and December 2019 to September 2020, full-time equivalent.
Nurse and health visitors | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust | |
Change since December 2019 | 66 (4.4%) | 24 (1.9%) |
Change since September 2019 | 106 (7.2%) | 36 (3.0%) |
Source: NHS Digital NHS HCHS workforce statistics
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