§ Mr. Stallardasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many trained chiropodists are employed by each local authority; how many trained and untrained chiropodists, respectively, are employed on an agency basis within the areas of each authority; and what number of full-time chiropodists each of these figures represents per 1,000 population over 65 years of age.
§ Sir George Young[pursuant to his reply, 13 July 1981; Vol. 8, c. 292.]: The information is as follows:
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The latest figures available are for 30 September 1979 and are as follows: Region and Area Chiropodists WTE WTE per 1,000 population over 65 (a) (b) (c) Northern Cleveland 14.6 0.22 Cumbria 22.5 0.30 Durham 25.8 0.30 Northumberland 12.7 0.29 Gateshead 6.5 0.21 Newcastle Upon Tyne 13.5 0.29 North Tyneside 7.1 0.24 South Tyneside 2.0 0.08 Sunderland 8.7 0.22 Yorkshire Humberside 32.9 0.27 North Yorkshire 25.8 0.26 Bradford 20.5 0.27 Calderdale 10.5 0.33 Kirklees 20.1 0.36 Leeds 25.0 0.23 Wakefield 12.8 0.31 Trent Derbyshire 25.6 0.20 Leicestershire 37.4 0.33 Lincolnshire 25.0 0.32 Nottinghamshire 49.4 O36 Barnsley 2.2 0.07 Doncaster 10.9 0.30 Rotherham 5.3 0.17 Sheffield 22.7 0.26 East Anglia Cambridgeshire 18.3 0.26 Norfolk 34.2 0.26 Suffolk 18.8 0.25 North West Thames Bedfordshire 16.4 0.29 Hertfordshire 21.2 0.19 Barnet 10.7 0.17 Brent and Harrow 26.9 0.41 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 34.9 0.32 Hillingdon 14.1 0.43 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 16.0 0.24 North East Thames Essex 29.3 0.15 Barking and Havering 17.6 0.31 Camden and Islington 46.4 0.79
Region and Area Chiropodists WTE WTEper 1,000 Population over 65 (a) (b) (c) City, Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets 21.8 0.24 Enfield and Haringey 6.5 0.09 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 17.7 0.23 South East Thames East Sussex 25.2 0.16 Kent 53.3 0.24 Bexley and Greenwich 16.6 0.27 Bromley 14.6 0.32 Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark 48.7 0.41 South West Thames Surrey 39.3 0.25 West Sussex 35.0 0.27 Croydon 14.3 0.32 Kingston and Richmond 16.2 0.38 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 39.8 0.37 Wessex Dorset 14.4 0.12 Hampshire 41.0 0.23 Wiltshire 57.2 0.57 Isle of Wight 2.4 0.10 Oxford Berkshire 19.5 0.22 Buckinghamshire 28.8 0.50 Northamptonshire 19.7 0.29 Oxfordshire 19.5 0.32 South Western Avon 28.6 0.24 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 13.5 0.18 Devon 38.4 0.21 Gloucestershire 27.3 0.37 Somerset — — West Midlands Hereford and Worcester 29.3 0.34 Salop 18.4 0.34 Staffordshire 31.3 0.25 Warwickshire 21.8 0.37 Birmingham 14.4 0.10 Coventry 9.9 0.23 Dudley 10.0 0.26 Sandwell 9.6 0.21 Solihull 6.9 0.33 Walsall 8.3 0.26 Wolverhampton 9.4 0.27 Mersey Cheshire 36.0 0.31 Liverpool 14.4 0.17 St. Helens with Knowsley 12.5 0.30 Sefton 11.3 0.25 Wirral 10.7 0.20 North Western Lancashire 92.6 0.40 Bolton 27.6 0.72 Bury 13.6 0.56 Manchester 37.5 0.50 Oldham 9.0 0.28 Rochdale 8.5 0.30 Salford 23.2 0.61 Stockport 16.2 0.40 Tameside 13.2 0.38 Trafford 18.4 0.57 Wigan 15.1 0.38 Notes:
- 1. These figures include salaried chiropodists both full-time and part-time, chiropodists employed on a sessional basis, chiropodists providing services on fee per treatment basis (domiciliary and surgery treatments)
273 and those chiropodists providing services on an agency basis (that is, chiropodists providing services to voluntary organisations acting on behalf of Area Health Authorities). - 2. Under the National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Regulations 1974 SI 1974 No. 296, health authorities are prohibited from employing chiropodists who are not state-registered. There are a number of unregistered chiropodists with a protected right to work in the National Health Service (this is under provisions in the 1964 Regulations which the existing ones replaced) but separate information as to numbers so employed are not available centrally.
- 3. There were only 27.1 whole-time equivalent chiropodists employed on an agency basic, in England at 30 September 1979. When expressed as a percentage of population over 65 years in each Area the numbers would be insignificant and are therefore not shown separately in the table.