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NHS Sickness Absence

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many employees of health trusts in the Province are on sick leave, broken down by profession. [24901]

Mr. Woodward: The number of employees who were on sick leave on 30 September 2005 is set out in the following table:

Staff group	Number of employees on sick leave
Administrative and clerical	549
Works and maintenance	37
Ancillary and general	876
Nursing and midwifery	1,415
Social work staff	333
Professional and technical	240
Medical and dental	50
NI Ambulance Service(82)	(82)83.59

⁽⁸²⁾ The NI Ambulance Service HSS Trust was only able to provide information in whole time equivalent due to the shift patterns worked by employees. Their figure includes employees in the ambulance, administrative and clerical, ancillary and general and medical staff groups.



 
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Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the costs resulting from sick leave among NHS employees in the Province in 2004–05. [24902]

Mr. Woodward: The information requested is not held centrally.

Nurses

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many overseas nurses are employed by each health trust in the Province. [24903]

Mr. Woodward: Information requested is provided in the following table.
Nurses from overseas employed by health trust as at 1 November 2005

Trust	Headcount	Whole-time equivalent
Altnagelvin Group HSS Trust	30	30.00
Armagh and Dungannon HSS Trust	0	0.00
Belfast City Hospital HSS Trust	100	100.00
Causeway HSS Trust	12	12.00
Craigavon and Banbridge Community HSS Trust 2		2.00
Craigavon Area Hospital Group HSS Trust	40	38.94
Down Lisburn HSS Trust	51	51.00
Foyle Community HSS Trust	4	4.00
Greenpark Healthcare HSS Trust	57	56.88
Homefirst Community HSS Trust	55	55.00
Mater Infirmorum Hospital HSS Trust	51	51.00
Newry and Mourne HSS Trust	12	12.00
North and West Belfast HSS Trust	0	0.00
Royal Group of Hospitals HSS Trust	218	218.00
South and East Belfast HSS Trust	0	0.00
Sperrin Lakeland HSS Trust	25	24.84
Ulster Community and Hospitals Group HSS Trust	107	107.00
United Hospitals Group HSS Trust	95	95.00
Total	859	857.66

Source:
NI Health Trusts

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many nursing vacancies there are in each health trust in the Province. [24904]

Mr. Woodward: The information requested is provided in the following tables.
Number of current vacancies for nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff at each health trust as at 31 March 2005

	Qualified nursing staff(83)		Unqualified nursing staff
Trust	Headcount	WTE	Headcount	WTE
Altnagelvin Group HSS Trust	38	37.32	12	11.40
Armagh and Dungannon HSS Trust	16	15.03	5	5.00
Belfast City Hospital HSS Trust	116	114.19	10	9.20
Causeway HSS Trust	10	9.50	1	1.00
Craigavon and Banbridge Community HSS Trust	9	6.45	0	0.00
Craigavon Area Hospital Group HSS Trust	18	15.78	3	2.53
Down Lisburn HSS Trust	19	18.41	0	0.00
Foyle Community HSS Trust	15	14.00	4	4.00
Green Park Healthcare HSS Trust	50	45.24	13	7.97
Homefirst Community HSS Trust	27	25.43	0	0.00
Mater Infirmorum Hospital HSS Trust	44	42.95	22	20.67
Newry and Mourne HSS Trust	2	2.00	0	0.00
North and West Belfast HSS Trust	47	41.97	4	2.53
Royal Group of Hospitals HSS Trust	137	116.84	34	26.90
South and East Belfast HSS Trust	30	29.33	0	0.00
Sperrin/Lakeland HSS Trust	12	12.00	1	0.80
Ulster Community and Hospitals Group HSS Trust	30	27.15	3	1.00
United Hospitals Group HSS Trust	20	18.47	12	9.26
Other Agencies and Board Headquarters	2	1.80	0	0.00
Total	642	593.86	124	102.26

⁽⁸³⁾ Qualified nursing staff include midwives, health visitors and district nurses.
Source:
NI HPSS Trusts and Organisations





 
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Number of long-term vacancies for nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff at each health trust as at 31 March 2005

	Qualified nursing staff(84)		Unqualified nursing staff
Trust	Headcount	WTE	Headcount	WTE
Altnagelvin Group HSS Trust	38	37.32	12	11.4
Armagh and Dungannon HSS Trust	6	6.00	0	0.00
Belfast City Hospital HSS Trust	108	106.19	10	9.20
Causeway HSS Trust	2	2.00	0	0.00
Craigavon and Banbridge Community HSS Trust	0	0.00	0	0.00
Craigavon Area Hospital Group HSS Trust	3	2.84	0	0.00
Down Lisburn HSS Trust	7	6.41	0	0.00
Foyle Community HSS Trust	0	0.00	0	0.00
Green Park Healthcare HSS Trust	32	32.00	0	0.00
Homefirst Community HSS Trust	11	10.50	0	0.00
Mater Infirmorum Hospital HSS Trust	20	20.00	0	0.00
Newry and Mourne HSS Trust	0	0.00	0	0.00
North and West Belfast HSS Trust	41	37.17	3	2.00
Royal Group of Hospitals HSS Trust	0	0.00	0	0.00
South and East Belfast HSS Trust	14	13.33	0	0.00
Sperrin/Lakeland HSS Trust	0	0.00	0	0.00
Ulster Community and Hospitals Group HSS Trust	0	0.00	0	0.00
United Hospitals Group HSS Trust	0	0.00	0	0.00
Other Agencies and Board Headquarters	1	0.80	0	0.00
Total	283	274.56	25	22.60

⁽⁸⁴⁾ Qualified nursing staff include midwives, health visitors and district nurses.
Source:
NI HPSS Trusts and Organisations

Ombudsmen (Police Complaints)

Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many complaints he has received from police officers regarding (a) actions by officers from the Ombudsman's Office and (b) investigations carried out by the Police Ombudsman in each of the last five years. [25148]

Mr. Woodward: In light of the Police Ombudsman's independent status, the NIO does not receive and handle complaints made against the Police Ombudsman's Office, except on the very narrow ground of maladministration in the Ombudsman's administrative processes. A complaint about the Ombudsman's handling of an investigation, or its outcome should be pursued through the Ombudsman's own internal complaints mechanism.

Records of complaints of alleged administrative maladministration are available from January 2005. Since then, three such complaints have been received from police officers.
 
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Orthopaedic Surgeons

Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many consultant orthopaedic surgeons there are in Northern Ireland. [24152]

Mr. Woodward: Information is only available for those consultant orthopaedic surgeons working within the Northern Ireland Health and Personal Social Services workforce. This information is provided in the table.
Number of consultant orthopaedic surgeons employed within the NI HPSS by trust as at 31 October 2005

Trust	Headcount	Whole-time equivalent
Altnagelvin Group HSS Trust	7	6.91
Green Park Healthcare HSS Trust	16	13.87
Royal Group of Hospitals HSS Trust	11	10.00
Ulster Community and Hospitals Group HSS Trust	5	5.00
Total	39	35.78

Source:
NI HPSS Trusts




 
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Paramilitary Violence

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many paramilitary (a) shootings
 
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and (b) assaults have been recorded by each Police District Command Unit in the Province in each of the last seven years. [24897]

Mr. Woodward: The information is as follows.
(a) Casualties as a result of paramilitary style shootings

DCU	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005(85)	Total
Antrim	1	1	1	2	2	5	0	12
Ards	0	1	4	8	12	14	12	51
Armagh	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	5
Banbridge	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	3
East Belfast	5	9	7	12	17	14	12	76
North Belfast	20	35	48	41	30	26	14	214
South Belfast	2	11	16	9	8	3	0	49
West Belfast	10	15	30	16	29	6	3	109
Ballymena	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
Ballymoney	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	3
Carrickfergus	3	2	7	12	6	2	0	32
Coleraine	0	2	0	5	4	2	0	13
Cookstown	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
Craigavon	2	1	3	3	2	1	1	13
Castlereagh	3	0	3	6	3	10	6	31
Dungannon and South Tyrone	1	2	2	1	2	1	1	10
Down	1	3	2	2	2	1	0	11
Fermanagh	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2
Foyle	2	0	2	3	3	3	1	14
Larne	1	1	2	4	0	2	0	10
Limavady	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lisburn	3	10	12	12	7	2	0	46
Magherafelt	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Moyle	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Newtownabbey	9	29	26	28	18	10	9	129
North Down	1	3	13	2	2	5	3	29
Newry and Mourne	1	6	3	4	2	1	0	17
Omagh	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Strabane	3	2	2	1	4	3	2	17
Total	73	136	186	173	156	112	65	901

(b) Casualties as a result of paramilitary style assaults

DCU	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005(85)	Total
Antrim	6	5	2	1	4	3	5	26
Ards	8	4	12	9	8	7	5	53
Armagh	0	4	5	2	1	2	1	15
Banbridge	0	2	2	0	3	2	0	9
East Belfast	4	6	9	9	8	4	1	41
North Belfast	10	15	9	11	22	16	12	95
South Belfast	4	9	4	9	6	7	6	45
West Belfast	12	15	13	16	16	6	4	82
Ballymena	1	2	7	2	0	0	0	12
Ballymoney	3	0	3	3	6	0	1	16
Carrickfergus	5	7	8	13	7	3	7	50
Coleraine	2	0	0	3	1	5	2	13
Cookstown	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	3
Craigavon	4	2	2	0	2	3	3	16
Castlereagh	2	2	3	7	6	7	4	31
Dungannon and South Tyrone	2	0	0	2	1	5	2	12
Down	2	4	7	3	3	5	1	25
Fermanagh	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2
Foyle	17	17	8	4	7	6	7	66
Larne	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	5
Limavady	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	4
Lisburn	11	11	16	10	12	4	3	67
Magherafelt	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Moyle	2	1	0	2	2	1	1	9
Newtownabbey	20	18	18	14	12	13	5	100
North Down	7	3	6	4	10	7	2	39
Newry and Mourne	4	1	3	6	6	2	4	26
Omagh	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2
Strabane	3	3	7	4	2	7	1	27
Total	134	132	146	139	149	115	77	892

⁽⁸⁵⁾ To 30 September.
Note:
2005 statistics are provisional and may be subject to minor amendment.






 
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