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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 200405. [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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