§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many doctors who have retired and received redundancy or retirement payments, early or otherwise, are now working part-time in the National Health Service.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThirty-nine doctors who were prematurely retired as a result of the main 1982 restructuring have since been re-employed in the NHS. I understand that 19 of these have already left that employment or will shortly do so and I have asked regional chairmen to terminate the employment of a further 12 unless a special case can be made for their retention. Further inquiries are proceeding on three and I have agreed that the other five who are employed part-time on clinical duties can be retained.
No information is available about the re-employment of doctors who have retired from the NHS in other circumstances, or who had been made redundant.