§ Mr. D. Jonesasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many vacancies exist at the present time for doctors in the health services in all the Colonial Territories; what proportion these vacancies form to all the posts required in each territory; and how many applications are received in a year for these vacancies from qualified doctors 55W already in the National Health Service in this country.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe figures required by the first two parts of the Question are:
Territory Vacancies* Establishment of doctors Aden (Colony and Protectorate) 1 22 Bahamas — 18 Barbados 4 27 Bermuda 2 5 British Guiana 14 66 British Honduras 1 13 Brunei 3 9 Cyprus — 76 Falkland Islands 1 5 Gambia — 12 Gibraltar — 10 Hong Kong 1 197 Jamaica 1 165 Kenya 4 176 Leeward Islands:— Antigua — 14 St. Kitts Nevis — 12 Montserrat — 3 Virgin Islands — 2 Malaya 1 267 Mauritius 14 83 Nigeria:— Federal Service 7 90 Eastern Region 11 87 Northern Region 12 129 Western Region 11 107 North Borneo 1 17 St. Helena (including Tristan da Cunha) — 3 Sarawak 2 21 Seychelles — 9 Sierra Leone 1 54 Singapore 3 256 Somaliland 1 10 South Pacific Health Service (including Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony and British Solomon Islands Protectorate) — 45 Tanganyika 2 175 Trinidad 18 140 Uganda 6 145 Windward Islands:— Dominica — 9 Grenada — 16 St. Lucia — 11 St. Vincent — 11 Zanzibar — 23 TOTAL 122 2,540 * These are the vacancies, actually notified to the Colonial Office for recruitment, against which candidates have not yet been selected. The Colonial Office receives about 300 applications a year from qualified doctors. Most of these are employed in the National Health Service here but it is not possible to give precise figures.