Healthcare Market News (Parliament) February 2005Clive Betts asked (18 January 2005: Column 870W) how many nurses were working in the NHS on 1 January; and how many there were on 1 January 1997. John Hutton: In 1997, 318,856 nurses were employed in the NHS. In 2004, this figure had increased to 396,359, an increase of…