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TABLE D1 Workforce 

NHS Hospital and Community Health Services: Total employed staff by main staff groups at 30 September  
England   Whole-time equivalent (thousands)


  1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

Total employed staff 758.1 765.9 782.1 801.5 837.2 882.1
             
Professionally qualified clinical staff 434.7 441.0 449.0 459.4 475.5 500.3
Medical & dental staff 57.1 58.7 60.3 62.1 64.1 68.3
Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff 246.0 247.2 250.7 256.3 266.2 279.3
Qualified scientific, therapeutic & technical staff 81.6 84.6 86.8 89.6 93.1 98.4
Qualified ambulance staff 14.2 14.1 14.1 14.1 14.3 15.0
             
Support to clinical staff 215.1 220.3 226.6 234.7 249.2 262.7
Support to doctors and nursing staff 180.5 184.3 188.9 194.7 205.8 216.2
Support to scientific, therapeutic & technical staff 29.5 30.5 31.5 32.6 35.0 37.9
Support to ambulance staff 5.1 5.5 6.2 7.4 8.4 8.5
             
NHS Infrastructure support 141.6 139.5 142.1 144.0 149.6 158.0
Senior managers and managers 21.4 21.9 23.4 24.3 26.3 30.9
Central functions 60.6 60.7 63.2 66.0 69.3 72.7
Hotel, property and estates 59.6 56.9 55.5 53.8 54.0 54.4
             
Unknown Classification 2.4 1.5 1.5 0.7 0.8 0.5

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