§ Mr. Nelsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will list the number of orthopaedic registrars in each of the districts within the South-West Thames regional health authority and the number of people on the waiting list for orthopaedic treatment in each of those districts.
§ Mr. John PattenThe information is given in the table:
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§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe table shows the increase in lodging charges for 1984 for the various grades of accommodation. The increases stern from a national agreement between NHS management and the staff organisations, and represent the final instalment of the introduction of economic charges reflecting the costs of the accommodation. The charges are not related to salaries and only a small proportion of nurses live-in, of whom the majority are students and pupils. It would therefore be misleading to try and calculate the effect of the new charges on the recent pay increases. The national charges may be reduced locally by up to 40 per cent. where accommodation is not of a reasonable standard. Information about any such reductions being applied on the Waltham Forest Health Authority is not collected centrally.
Traumatic and orthopaedic registrars in the South-West Thames regional health authority and number of people on inpatient orthopaedic waiting lists—30 September 1983 District Health Authority No. of registrars No. of patients on waiting list North West Surrey 1 497 West Surrey and NE Hants 2 1,021 South West Surrey 1 990 Mid Surrey 1 230 East Surrey 2 496 Chichester — 827 Mid Downs 1 451 Worthing 1 1,652 Croydon 2 624 Kingston and Esher 1 514 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 1 166 Wandsworth (T) 4 408 Merton and Surrey 2 164 South West Thames Total 19 8,040 Note: Figures on waiting lists are believed to include a significant proportion of duplicated entries and patients who no longer require treatment. The amount of overstatement cannot be readily estimated but it is thought to exceed 10 per cent. nationally and could be considerably more.
§ Mr. Nelsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will direct the South-West Thames regional health authority to transfer an orthopaedic registrar from one of the districts with more than one registrar to the Chichester health authority where there are none.
§ Mr. John PattenThis is a matter for the South-West Thames RHA.