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<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>
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