AQW 13832/17-22


Ms Paula Bradshaw
Alliance Party
South Belfast


Tabled Date: 01/02/2021
Answered On Date: 11/03/2021
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the specialist nurses employed by each Health and Social Care Trust, as of 1 January 2021, broken down by (i) number; (ii) specialism; and (iii) whole time equivalent.


Answer:
The Health and Social Care (HSC) Trusts have separately provided the following responses in relation to specialist nurses employed as at 1st January 2021. Each Trust may have interpreted the question differently as nurses within a specialism rather than numbers of specialist nurses.
Belfast HSC Trust
Specialism
Headcount
Acute (ICU & Theatres)
38
Learning & Disability
8
Mental Health
8
Unscheduled Care
111
Children’s Community Team
144
Specialist Surgery
59
Cancer & Specialist Medicine
119
Community (Adult)
24
TOR
39
Maternity / SH & WH
12
Children / SWCH
61
Total
623
Northern HSC Trust
Specialism
Headcount
Whole-Time Equivalent
District Nursing
64
44.04
Continence adult
6
5.00
Palliative Care
14
12.40
Occupational health
2
2.00
Bereavement and health and safety
1
1.80
Emergency Nurse Practitioner
17
14.79
Parkinsons
1
0.50
Multiple Sclerosis
1
1.00
ANP adult/older people
2
2.00
Renal
2
2.00
Tissue Viability
5
3.89
Respiratory
6
6.00
Rheumatology
5
4.60
Adult protection
1
1.00
Brain Injury
1
0.85
Heart Failure/Coronary care
6
5.67
Dermatology
2
2.00
Dementia
2
2.00
Endocrinology/Diabetes
9
8.73
Orthopaedics
1
1.00
Eating Disorders
3
3.00
Forensics
3
3.00
Learning Disability
5
4.29
Mental health Liaison
8
8.00
Community Mental Health Team
8
8.00
Addictions
6
5.80
Crisis Response
11
10.60
Behaviour Specialist
5
3.58
Personality Disorders
4
4.00
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
3
3.00
Falls Prevention
1
0.91
Infection Control
6
5.68
IBD
1
1.00
ENT
1
1.00
Endoscopy
3
2.80
Cancer
16
13.07
Ophthalmics
2
1.64
Stoma
1
1.00
Breast Care
4
4.00
Health Visiting
119
101.87
Child & Adult Mental Health Services
13
12.80
GUM
4
2.59
School nursing
12
10.00
Neonatal
7
7.00
Specialist Midwife
1
1.00
Obstetrics and gynaecology
2
2.00
Breast feeding coordinator
1
1.00
Family Planning
6
3.52
Paediatric behaviour therapist
3
2.00
Paediatric diabetes
5
4.36
Paediatric Autism
1
1.00
Paediatric continence
1
1.00
Total
414
355.78
South Eastern HSC Trust
Specialism
Headcount
Whole-Time Equivalent
SCMH Community Mental Health Nursing
5
5.00
SPA Adult Nursing
157
126.40
SPCC Community Children’s Nursing
6
3.00
SPDN District Nursing
81
51.05
SPGP General Practice Nursing
2
0.00
SPLD Learning Disability Nursing
1
1.00
SPMH Mental Health
32
26.62
Total
284
213.07
Includes those nurses with a specialist practice qualification (SPQ). Many more nurses will have a specialist interest/evidence of continuing professional development in relation to a particular specialism but this information is not collated centrally.
Southern HSC Trust
Specialism
Headcount
Whole-Time Equivalent
Acute Care at Home
3
2.73
Breast Care
4
3.60
Cancer Services Haematology
2
1.20
Cardiology
8
6.71
Child Protection
6
5.20
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
10
9.31
Colorectal
2
1.71
Community Addictions
2
1.80
Community Children’s
15
13.55
Community Learning Disability
2
2.00
Dermatology
1
0.80
Diabetes
11
10.17
District Nursing
78
71.15
Eating Disorders
1
1.00
Emergency Department
21
17.20
Family Nursing
7
6.40
Gastroenterology
2
2.00
GP Out of Hours
1
0.08
Gynaecology Nursing
1
0.89
Head & Neck
2
2.00
Health Visiting
122
99.91
Health Visiting & School Nursing
1
1.00
Infant Mental Health
1
1.00
Lung Cancer Nursing
1
1.00
Midwifery
4
1.53
NINES – nurse led new entrant service
2
1.80
Non Medical Prescriber - Dermatology
2
1.71
Non Medical Prescriber - Epilepsy
1
1.00
Non Medical Prescriber - LAC Psychology
1
1.00
Non Medical Prescriber - Memory Services
2
1.80
Non Medical Prescriber - Mental Health & Disability
1
1.00
Non Medical Prescriber - Mental Health Liaison
1
1.00
Non Medical Prescriber - Mental Health Patient Flow
1
1.00
Non Medical Prescriber - Support & Recovery
1
1.00
Nurse Endoscopy
4
3.28
Nursing Care for Older People
1
1.00
Occupational Health
6
4.71
Oncology
4
3.60
Paediatric Services (Ambulatory)
4
3.76
Paediatric Services (Children’s Research)
1
0.50
Paediatric Services (Neonatal)
5
4.43
Palliative
3
2.91
Palliative Nursing
3
2.85
Parkinson
1
1.00
PDSN (diabetes )
5
4.20
PEN (epilepsy)
2
2.00
PRANS (Resp. Allergy)
3
2.55
Respiratory
12
8.85
Resuscitation
2
2.00
Rheumatology
5
3.80
School Nursing
9
7.67
School Nursing & NINES
1
1.00
Sexual Health
1
1.00
Specialist Screening Practitioner - BCS
3
2.19
Stroke
6
4.85
Ultrasonography
1
1.00
Upper GI Nursing
1
1.00
Urology
5
5.00
Total
408
350.39
Excludes bank staff, staff on career break and those staff currently undertaking a specialist practice programme as part of the 2020/21 education commissioning cycle.
Excludes nurses who work in a specialism but have been unable to gain their specialist practice qualification (SPQ) as there is no course regionally available or has only recently been made available, or have completed specialist courses/modules relating to their areas but not a SPQ.
Western HSC Trust
Specialism
Headcount
Whole-Time Equivalent
Medical Specialties
Diabetes
15
13.30
Respiratory
13
12.05
Cardiology
11
9.80
Renal
1
1.00
Rheumatology
2
2.00
Multiple Sclerosis
3
2.14
Epilepsy
2
1.64
Parkinsons
2
2.00
Emergency Care
10
10.00
Palliative Care
10
8.40
Haemovigilence
4
3.50
Tissue Viability
4
3.80
Resuscitation Training
4
3.45
Stroke Care
1
1.00
Continence Assessment
5
4.50
Infection Prevention & Control
8
6.82
Clinical Trials
4
3.80
Surgical Specialties
Head and Neck
2
1.80
Urology
7
6.72
Stoma Care
5
5.00
Ophthalmology
6
6.00
Pre-Assessment
7
4.40
Endoscopy
5
4.40
Surgical Specialties
7
5.00
Cancer Services
Cancer Services
25
22.00
Radiotherapy
5
4.80
Women and Children’s
Child Safeguarding
4
3.80
Adult Safeguarding
1
1.00
Family Nurse Partnership
4
3.40
Paediatrics
13
10.38
Women’s Health
1
0.80
Milk Bank
1
1.00
Adult Mental Health
Eating Disorders
3
3.00
Total
195
172.70