§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what has been the percentage change each year since 1979 in the number of National Health Service staff as follows (a) medical and dental, (b) nursing and midwifery, (c) professional and technical, (d) works, (e) maintenance, (f) administrative, (g) clerical, (h) ancillary and (i) ambulance personnel.
§ Mr. NewtonThe figures are shown in the table.
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NHS directly employed staff by main staff group: year-on-year percentage changes based on whole-time equivalent staff in post at 30 September each year England1 Percentage change Medical and Dental2 Nursing and Midwifery3 4 Professional and Technical5 Works Maintenance Administrative and Clerical6 Ancillary5 Ambulance (including officers) 1979–80 + 3.0 + 3.2 + 2.9 + 5.8 + 2.3 + 2.4 (7) + 3.7 1980–81 + 2.1 + 5.9 + 5.4 +4.1 + 2.2 + 3.2 + 0.1 + 2.5 1981–82 + 1.1 + 1.4 + 3.1 -1.3 + 0.1 (7) -1.0 + 0.6 1982–83 + 1.9 (7) + 2.2 -2.1 -1.0 + 1.1 -2.5 + 0.4 1983–84 + 0.2 + 0.1 + 5.8 + 0.7 -3.0 + 0.3 -8.4 -1.6 1984–85 + 1.6 + 0.9 + 2.3 + 1.2 -2.3 + 0.7 -8.4 + 0.5 1985–868 + 0.6 + 0.2 + 2.4 -3.9 -3.2 + 0.3 -10.9 + 5.0 SourceDHSS Annual Censuses of Medical and Non-Medical Manpower.
1 Includes staff at the Dental Estimates Board, Prescription Pricing Authority, London Post-Graduate Special Health Authorities and Family Practitioner Committee Staff on health authority payrolls.
2 Includes permanent paid, honorary and locum staff in hospitals and community health services, hospital practitioners and part-time medical/dental officers (clinical assistants).
3Includes agency staff.
4Not adjusted for reduction in nurses' working hours in 1980 (from 40 to 37.5 hours per week).
5On 1 April 1984 approximately 2,600 (wte) Operating Department Assistants were re-classified from the Ancillary to the Professional and Technical staff group. The figures had not been adjusted for this re-classification.
6 There is no standard break-down of staff within the Administrative and Clerical staff group into separate "Administrative" and "Clerical" categories-these staff have therefore been shown as a single group.
7 Less than 0.05 per cent.
8Figures for 1986 are provisional.