Fiona Woods
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106 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2011
last heard May 2012
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Well, who knows?
Maybe because September 2009 was a particularly low point in nursing staff numbers.
Well, Andrew Lansley did do better.
If you look at the data, between May 2010 and January 2012, the equivalent of nearly 2,600 full-time nursing posts have gone.
That's since the coalition came to power.
And if you look at the actual number of staff who have gone, that number is over 3,670 because a lot of staff part-time.
Well, it depends whether you're worried about NHS staffing or NHS staff.
If you sack two half-time nurses, the NHS has lost the equivalent of one nurse, but two people have lost their jobs.
I don't really think there's a single right way to measure this.
Clinical staff includes doctors, nurses and midwives, as well as radiographers, medical scientists, speech and language therapists and others.
In fact, the number is higher.
Between May 2010 and January 2012, the number of full-time equivalent clinical jobs went up net by 4,628.
The mix, however, has changed.
There are fewer nurses.
But Andrew Lansley is right when he says overall there are more clinical staff.
And just to be clear, a lot of the extra staff are doctors.
Well, so far we've been talking about what's actually happened so far.
That 60,000 figure is a projection by the Royal College of Nursing of the total number of NHS jobs they expect to go by 2015.
Now, that's not just nurses or even just clinical staff.
That's all staff.
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