Since April 2013, local authorities have held responsibility for commissioning public health services for school-aged children. These services may be commissioned from a range of providers both inside and outside of the National Health Service. NHS England publishes monthly workforce data which includes information on the number of school nurses directly employed by NHS trusts and other core NHS organisations in England. This data will not represent the total number of school nurses delivering local authority commissioned services, as it will excludes places where services are commissioned outside of the NHS. It is not possible to identify the specific service or programme that these staff are working within.<\/p>
While data is not available at a local authority level, the following table shows full-time equivalent (FTE) school nurses working within NHS trusts and other core organisations in England by Government Office Region, as of November 2023:<\/p>
Government Office Region<\/p><\/td> | FTE School Nurses<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
East Midlands<\/p><\/td> | 140<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
East of England<\/p><\/td> | 161<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
London<\/p><\/td> | 325<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North East<\/p><\/td> | 55<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North West<\/p><\/td> | 434<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
South East<\/p><\/td> | 291<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
South West<\/p><\/td> | 81<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
West Midlands<\/p><\/td> | 286<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yorkshire and The Humber<\/p><\/td> | 207<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4044", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andrew Stephenson"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Pendle"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Andrew Stephenson"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2024-04-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2024-04-04T10:58:19.047Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2024-03-18", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Nurses: Schools"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent qualified school nurses are working in a public health-commissioned (a) school nursing service, (b) zero to 19 service and (c) five to 19 healthy child programme in each local authority area.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3930", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Caroline Lucas"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Brighton, Pavilion"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Caroline Lucas"} ], "uin" : "19035"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1582851", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1582851/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " It is the responsibility of local authority commissioners, working with their service provider, to determine school nurses\u2019 numbers based upon local needs. Requirements should be underpinned by a local workforce plan and population health needs.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4679", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Neil O'Brien"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Harborough"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Neil O'Brien"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2023-02-13", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "previousAnswerVersion" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1582851/answer/previousversion/53396", "answeringMember" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4423", "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Colchester"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Will Quince"} } , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2023-02-13T14:06:35.447Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2023-02-01", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Nurses: Schools"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of school nurses.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4471", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Rachael Maskell"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "York Central"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Rachael Maskell"} ], "uin" : "137880"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1220370", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1220370/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " From April 2013, local authorities have been responsible for public health locally, including commissioning public health services for school aged children in their area. This includes school nursing services.<\/p> Local authorities should assess the health needs of their populations and commission the appropriate school nursing services. Local authorities will determine the school nursing numbers depending on need. This will be underpinned by robust workforce plans.<\/p> <\/strong><\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many registered nurses were employed in school nursing teams in each year since 2010.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent school nurses there were in each January since January 2010.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/759739/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " School nurses can be employed by a range of organisations including health trusts and, more recently, local authorities. Current data collections do not cover the complete range of these organisations. As a result, it is not possible to provide accurate data on the total size of the school nurse workforce. The data in the table below presents statistics on school nurses employed by National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England only.<\/p> <\/p> NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Qualified Nurses working in the area of School Nursing in NHS trusts and CCGs in England as at 30 September each specified year and 31 May 2017 (full-time equivalent).<\/p> <\/p><\/td> All registered (qualified) nurses working in the care setting of School Nursing (full-time equivalent)<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2007<\/p><\/td> 2,225<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2008<\/p><\/td> 2,606<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2009<\/p><\/td> 2,915<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2010<\/p><\/td> 2,933<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2011<\/p><\/td> 2,928<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2012<\/p><\/td> 2,730<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2013<\/p><\/td> 2,772<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2014<\/p><\/td> 2,763<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2015<\/p><\/td> 2,715<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2016<\/p><\/td> 2,570<\/p><\/td><\/tr> May-2017<\/p><\/td> 2,433<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> Source: NHS Digital, Provisional HCHS monthly workforce statistics.<\/p> <\/p> Note: Due to the change in methodology figures for 2007 and 2008 are not directly comparable to figures from September 2009 onwards.<\/p>"}
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