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Full time equivalents
England All NHS staff All NHS doctors HCHS medical and dental staff General medical practictioners( 1) GP practice staff( 2,3) HCHS medical staff( 4)

1979

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

1980

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

19,944

n/a

1981

n/a

n/a

n/a..

n/a

21,901

n/a

1982

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

23,117

782,761

1983

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

24,624

787,164

1984

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

25,994

776,981

1985

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

27,394

769,902

1986

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

29,441

758,341

1987

n/a

n/a

41,522

n/a

29,320

755,863

1988

n/a

n/a

42,836

n/a

33,703

748,644

1989

n/a

n/a

44,091

n/a

37,546

751,067

1990

n/a

n/a

45,391

n/a

45,333

742,806

1991

n/a

73,662

46,527

27,135

48,731

n/a

1992

n/a

74,522

47,222

27,299

51,020

n/a

1993

852,834

76,124

48,737

27,387

53,952

722,758

1994

839,478

76,840

49,345

27,495

51,833

710,804

1995

842,310

80,064

52,575

27,489

59,254

702,992

1996

848,104

81,783

54,233

27,549

59,318

707,003

1997

846,298

84,758

57,099

27,660

60,579

700,961

1998

855,129

86,594

58,746

27,848

61,332

707,203

1999

873,226

88,371

60,338

28,033

63,087

721,767

2000

892,230

90,248

62,094

28,154

62,583

739,399

2001

930,633

92,495

64,055

28,439

64,998

773,141

2002

977,961

96,999

68,260

28,740

67,107

813,854

2003

1,026,976

102,037

72,260

29,777

69,140

855,799

2004

1,071,203

109,224

78,462

30,762

72,006

889,973

2005

1,103,789

114,251

82,568

31,683

72,990

916,548

n/a = data not available
(1) Excluding retainers. GP retainers were first collected in 1999 and are omitted for comparability purposes.
(2) Practice staff figures for 1991 to 1994 may not be fully comparable with other data due to under-reporting of fundholding practice staff by FHSAs.
(3) Includes estimated data for Buckinghamshire.
(4) A new system of occupation coding for NHS non-medical staff was introduced in 1995. Figures for 1994 and earlier are not directly comparable with later years.
Notes:
1. Full time equivalent figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.
2. The first medical and dental figures included are for 1987 as figures before then are not seen as being comparable. GP FTE figures were not calculated before 1990, and the first FTE figure we can locate for GPs are for 1991.
3. All data as at 30 September except GP data as at 1 October 1975-99 and 30 September 2000-05. In both cases (headcount and FTE) the non-medical data which makes up the greatest proportion of the NHS workforce only goes back to 1982. Data for years before this are not seen as sufficiently comparable to include in this time series. Total non-medical figures are also not available for 1991 and 1992 as for these years half the census was paper-based and half electronic, so as we no longer hold the paper returns, our systems only have an incomplete record for these years.
Source:
The Information Centre for health and social care general and personal medical services statistics
The Information Centre for health and social care medical and dental workforce census
The Information Centre for health and social care non-medical workforce census

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the evidential basis was for her statement on Sky News on 7 January 2007 that the NHS work force would see a reduction of 18,000 jobs in the 2006-07 financial year. [115027]


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Ms Rosie Winterton: This figure is based on trends in employment levels reported by trusts and primary care trusts since April 2006.

Nightclub Noise Levels

Mr. Leech: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will commission research into the potential for damage to be caused to people’s hearing by the level of noise in nightclubs. [112965]

Andy Burnham: The Department has no plans to do so.

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has responsibility for health and safety.
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This includes responsibility for legislation that requires employers to prevent or reduce risks to health from exposure to noise at work.

Nursing

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many foreign (a) nurses and (b) doctors were employed as nurses in the NHS in 2005-06. [115572]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The number of doctors employed in the national health service who qualified outside the United Kingdom is shown in the table. Information relating to the country of qualification or origin is not collected centrally for nurses.

All doctors: hospital and community health services (HCHS) medical staff( 1,2) and general medical practitioners( 3) by country of primary medical qualification, as at 30 September 2005, England
Number (headcount)
All countries of qualification Qualified in UK Qualified outside UK
of which: Qualified in remainder of European Economic Area Qualified elsewhere

All doctors(1,2,3)

119,017

79,247

39,770

6,810

32,960

HCHS medical staff(1,2)

83,073

50,721

32,352

5,041

27,311

General medical practitioners(3)

35,944

28,526

7,418

1,769

5,649

(1) Excludes all staff with a dental specialty. Information about country of qualification is derived from the General Medical Council. For staff in dental specialties, with a General Dental Council registration, the country of qualification is unknown.
(2) Excludes medical hospital practitioners and medical clinical assistants, most of whom are also GPs working part time in hospitals.
(3) All general medical practitioners includes contracted GPs, GMS others, PMS others, GP registrars and GP retainers
Source:
The Information Centre for health and social care General and Personal Medical Services Statistics
The Information Centre for health and social care Medical and Dental Workforce Census

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