Department of Health and Social Care<p>NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics for substantive staff employed by the National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups. Nurses on our wards are coded on the Electronic Staff Record as Acute, Elderly and General Nurses and are a subset of all nurses and health visitors. As at September, NHS Digital data shows there were 14,185 full time equivalent more nurses on our wards than in May 2010. All of these nurses are professionally qualified clinical nurses. As such, none are agency nurses.</p><p>Figures are provided as full time equivalent as this is the most accurate measure of service capacity.</p>Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen2018-01-29HL4799false2018-01-29T17:47:11.647Z17Health and Social CareHealth and Social Care2018-01-17Nurses2House of LordsTo ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 10 January (HL Deb, col 182), how many of the 10,000 extra nurses on wards are qualified, registered nurses.falseLord Clark of WindermereHL480010011