§ Ms. HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what will be(a) the initial costs and (b) the annual running costs of confidential inquiries into stillbirths and infant deaths in England; and what additional funds he is making available to (i) the Department of Health, (ii) the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, (iii) regional health authorities and (iv) district health authorities to (a) set up and (b) run the inquiries.
§ Mrs. Virginia Bottomley[holding answer 5 November 1991]: Initial costs in regions of setting up epidemiological surveys of stillbirths and infant deaths and of recruiting additional perinatal pathologists are already being met from current allocations. Details of further expenditure are under consideration. As the confidential inquiry will be part of the NHS reforms audit initiative, regions will be
Hospital medical staff in England as at 30 September 1990 Consultants All other staff All staff Male Female Male Female Male Female Northern 878 140 1,396 635 2,274 775 Yorkshire 916 118 1,757 659 2,673 777 Trent 1,175 173 1,967 947 3,142 1,120 East Anglia 564 83 905 427 1,469 510 North West Thames 847 227 1,613 907 2,460 1,134 North East Thames 1,176 306 1,855 974 3,031 1,280 South East Thames 1,069 207 1,734 827 2,803 1,034 South West Thames 742 202 1,122 641 1,864 843 Wessex 745 106 1,282 662 2,027 768 Oxford 629 137 1,083 630 1,712 767 South Western 817 109 1,390 732 2,207 841 West Midlands 1,307 207 2,333 935 3,640 1,142 Mersey 686 104 1,137 504 1,823 608 North Western 1,128 189 2,183 902 3,311 1,091 LPGTHs1 544 110 698 303 1,242 413 Total 12,834 2,369 22,275 10,590 35,109 12,959 1 London Postgraduate Teaching Hospitals. Notes:
Figures include all permanent paid and honorary staff and exclude all locum staff.
England totals do not equal the sum of the regions due to doctors working in more than one region.
184Weligible to seek funds which have been especially assigned to clinical audit. The total amount available for all clinical audit work will be around £40 million in 1992–93.