HC Deb 07 February 1994 vol 237 cc41-2W
Ms Primarolo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what information she has received relating to nursing and medical staffing levels at Grantham and Kesteven hospital in each of the last five years.

Dr. Mawhinney

Data on staffing levels at this level of detail are not available centrally.

Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time consultant paediatricians are currently

  1. (ii) Specialist skills exist but they are needed for higher priority objectives,
  2. (iii) Where management have taken a decision to contract out the work,
  3. (iv) Where impartiality is fundamental to the success of the project.
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Health on which occasions since 1990 her Department has employed the services of external consultants; and if she will give details of the purposes for which they were employed and the cost of employing them.

Mr. Sackville

There have been numerous occasions since 1990 that the Department has found the need to employ the assistance of external consultants. Detailed information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

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