HC Deb 26 February 1988 vol 128 cc370-3W
Rev. Martin Smyth

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the number of consultants by specialty in each health board in Northern Ireland in 1979, 1983 and 1987, showing in each case how many consultants were on full-time National Health Service contracts in these years.

Mr. Needham

The information requested is given in the following tables. It should be noted that (i) consultants whose sessions are split between different boards are shown under the board with which their major involvement lies; (ii) the vast majority of part-time consultants have a maximum part-time contract which is equivalent to 10 sessions per week commitment to the Health and Personal Social Services; for example, in 1987 there were only seven consultants with contracts less than the maximum part-time; (iii) joint appointments are those where consultants are appointed jointly by Queen's University, Belfast, and the Eastern health and social services board and time is divided between teaching medical students and clinical work.

Eastern Board Northern Board Southern Board Western Board
Specialty 1F/T 2P/T 3J/A Total 1F/T 2P/T Total 1F/T 2P/T Total 1F/T 2P/T Total
General Surgery 10 14 4 28 8 5 13 4 4 8 6 2 8
Geriatrics 3 3 1 7 2 2 1 1 1 1
Nephrology 2 2
Neurology 2 1 3
Neuro-surgery 2 1 1 4
Obstetrics and Gynaecology 3 12 5 20 1 6 7 1 4 5 2 3 5
Ophthalmology 5 2 3 10 2 1 3
Orthopaedic Surgery 2 13 2 17 2 2
Paediatrics 6 1 6 13 2 2 2 2
Paediatric Surgery 3 3
Pathology 18 1 12 31 2 2 3 1 4 2 2
Plastic Surgery 1 5 6
Psychiatry 15 1 6 22 7 7 5 5 7 7
Radiology 16 1 1 18 3 3 2 2 4 4
Radio Therapy 3 1 4
Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2 1 3
Special Care 2 2 3 3 1 1
Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery 4 4
Venereology 1 1 2
Total 180 80 55 315 41 18 59 40 13 53 44 12 56
1 F/T = Full Time
2 P/T = Part Time
3 J/A = Joint Appointments

Medical consultants by speciality in each Health and Social Services Board at 30 September 1983
Eastern Board Northern Board Southern Board Western Board
Specialty 1F/T 2P/T 3J/A Total 1F/T 2P/T Total 1F/T 2P/T Total 1F/T 2P/T Total
Accident and Emergency 6 6
Anaesthetics 45 6 3 54 10 1 11 10 10 8 1 9
Anatomy 2 2
Cardiology 9 2 11 1 1 1 1
Chemical Pathology 1 1
Child Psychiatry 2 1 3
Clinical Electrophysiology 1 1
Clinical Neurological Physiology 1 1
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 4 4
Dermatology 2 2 1 5 1 1 2 2 1 1
ENT 4 5 2 11 3 3 2 2 4 1 2 3
General Medicine 20 9 5 34 10 10 7 7 8 8
General Pathology 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 2
General Surgery 11 14 4 29 10 2 12 7 2 9 7 1 8
Geriatrics 5 1 3 9 3 3 1 1 2 2
Gynaecology and Obstetrics 7 9 6 22 4 2 6 4 3 7 4 2 6
Haematology/Blood Transfusion 4 2 6 1 1 1 1
Histology 1 1
Histopathology/Neuropathology 4 6 10
Immunopathology 2 2
Infectious Diseases 2 2
Medical Genetics 1 1
Medical Microbiology 4 1 5
Mental Handicap 3 3 2 2 1 1
Nephrology 3 3
Neurology 3 1 4
Neuro-surgery 2 1 1 4
Ophthalmic Surgery 6 2 3 11 3 3
Orthopaedic Surgery 1 14 2 17 2 2
Other Departments 1 1
Paediatric Surgery 3 3
Paediatrics 6 1 6 13 2 2 1 1 4 4
Physiology 4 4
Plastic Surgery 5 5
Psychiatry 12 4 16 8 8 10 10 7 7
Radiology 16 1 1 18 2 2 2 2 4 1 5
Radiotherapy and Medical Oncology 4 1 5
Rhuematology and Rehabilitation 2 1 3
Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery 4 4
Venereology 2 1 3
Total 197 83 59 339 56 5 61 51 7 58 52 9 61
1 F/T = Full Time.
2 P/T = Part Time.
3 J/A = Joint Appointments.

Medical consultants by speciality in each Health and Social Services Board at 30 September 1987
Eastern Board Northern Board Southern Board Western Board
Specialty 1F/T 2P/T 3J/A Total 1F/T 2P/T Total 1F/T 2P/T Total 1F/T 2P/T Total
Accident and emergency 6 6 1 1
Anaesthetics 42 13 3 58 10 1 11 11 11 8 1 9
Anatomy 1 1
Cardiology 11 2 13 1 1 1 1
Cardiothoracic surgery 4 4
Chemical pathology 1 1
Child and adolescent psychiatry 2 1 3
Clinical genetics 1 1
Clinical neuro-physiology 1 1
Clinical pharmacology 4 4
Dermatology 3 2 1 6 2 2 2 2 2 2
ENT 4 5 2 11 3 3 3 1 4 2 2 4
General medicine 24 4 6 34 10 10 6 6 9 9
General medicine/special interest geriatrics 1 1 2 2
General pathology 2 2 1 1 1 1
General surgery 10 11 3 24 10 2 12 8 1 9 8 8
Genito-urinary medicine 2 1 3
Geriatric medicine 6 1 3 10 3 3 1 1 2 2
Haematology 4 2 6 1 1 2 2
Histology 1 1
Histopathology 7 7 14 2 2 1 1
Immuno-pathology 2 2
Infectious diseases 2 2
Medical microbiology 5 2 7 1 1
Medical oncology 2 2
Mental handicap 4 4 1 1 1 1
Mental illness 17 1 6 24 8 8 5 5 9 9
Nephrology 4 4
Neurology 3 1 4
Neuro-surgery 2 1 1 4
Obstetrics and Gynaecology 7 9 4 20 5 2 7 4 4 8 3 3 6
Ophthalmology 7 1 3 11 3 3
Orthopaedics 2 14 2 18 1 2 3
Other departments 1 1
Paediatric surgery 2 2
Paediatrics 7 1 5 13 2 2 3 3 2 2
Physiology 4 4
Plastic surgery 5 5
Radiology 20 4 24 5 5 4 4 4 4
Radiotherapy 5 5
Rheumatology and rehabilitation 3 3
Urology 4 4
Total 224 82 60 366 64 5 69 55 6 61 56 8 64
1 F/T—Full time.
2 P/T—Part time.
3 J/A—Joint appointments.