§ Mrs. PeacockTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the number of speech therapists employed by each health authority in England and Wales indicating in each case any shortfall against establishment.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe latest available figures for speech therapists employed in the national health service in England, by region and by district health authority, are shown in the table. Information on shortfall against establishment is provided for regional health authorities, but not by district health authority and this information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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Whole-time equivalents England TOTAL 3,200 Northern Region Northern Regional Health Authority 20 Hartlepool 10 North Tees 20 South Tees 20 East Cumbria 10 South Cumbria 10 West Cumbria 0 Darlington 10 South West Durham 20 Gateshead 20 Newcastle 30 North Tyneside 10 South Tyneside 10 Sunderland 20 North Durham 20 TOTAL 220 Yorkshire Region Hull 10 East Yorkshire 10 Grimsby 10 Scunthorpe 10 Northallerton 10 York 10 Scarborough 10 Harrogate 10 319W
Whole-time equivalents Bradford 20 Airedale 10 Calderdale 10 Huddersfield 20 Dewsbury 10 Leeds 50 Wakefield 10 Pontefract 10 TOTAL 220 Trent Region Trent Regional Health Authority 10 North Derbyshire 30 Southern Derbyshire 20 Leicestershire 40 North Lincolnshire 10 South Lincolnshire 20 Nottingham 50 Barnsley 10 Doncaster 10 Rotherham 10 Sheffield 40 North Nottinghamshire 30 TOTAL 280 East Anglian Region Cambridge 20 West Suffolk 10 East Suffolk 20 North West Anglia 20 Norwich 30 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 10 Huntingdon 10 TOTAL 120 North West Thames Region North Bedfordshire 20 South Bedfordshire 20 North West Hertfordshire 20 South West Hertfordshire 10 Barnet 20 Harrow 10 Hillingdon 10 Hounslow and Spelthorne 30 Ealing 30 Riverside 40 Parkside 30 East and North Hertfordshire 10 TOTAL 230 North East Thames Region Basildon and Thurrock 10 Mid Essex 20 North East Essex 20 West Essex 10 Southend 20 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 20 Hampstead 30 City and Hackney 10 Newham 20 Tower Hamlets 10 Enfield 10 Haringey 20 Redbridge 10 Waltham Forest 10 Bloomsbury and Islington 40 TOTAL 270 South East Thames Region Brighton 20 Eastbourne 20 Hastings 10 320W
Whole-time equivalents South East Kent 10 Canterbury and Thanet 30 Dartford and Gravesham 20 Maidstone 10 Medway 20 Tunbridge Wells 20 Bexley 20 Greenwich 20 Bromley 20 West Lambeth 20 Camberwell 20 Lewisham and North Southwark 50 TOTAL 290 South West Thames Region North West Surrey 20 West Surrey and North East Hampshire 10 South West Surrey 20 Mid Surrey 0 East Surrey 10 Chichester 10 Mid Downs 20 Worthing District 20 Croydon 20 Kingston and Esher 10 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 20 Wandsworth 30 Merton and Sutton 20 TOTAL 200 Wessex Region Dorset 30 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 40 Southampton and South West Hampshire 20 Winchester 10 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 10 Salisbury 10 Swindon 20 Bath District 20 Isle of Wight 10 TOTAL 170 Oxford Region East Berkshire 30 West Berkshire 30 Aylesbury Vale 10 Wycombe 20 Milton Keynes 20 Kettering 10 Northampton 20 Oxfordshire 40 TOTAL 170 South Western Region Bristol and District 80 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 20 Exeter 20 North Devon 10 Plymouth 20 Torbay 30 Gloucestershire 50 Somerset 30 TOTAL 250 West Midlands Region Bromsgrove and Redditch 10 Herefordshire 10 Kidderminster and District 10 Worcester and District 10 Shropshire 20 Mid Staffordshire 20 North Staffordshire 20
Whole-time equivalents South East Staffordshire 30 South Warwickshire 20 East Birmingham 10 North Birmingham 10 West Birmingham 10 Coventry 10 Dudley 20 Sandwell 10 Solihull 10 Walsall 10 Wolverhampton 10 North East Warwickshire 30 South Birmingham 40 TOTAL 330 Mersey Region Crewe 10 Halton 20 Macclesfield 10 Warrington 10 Liverpool 30 St. Helens and Knowsley 20 Southport and Formby 10 South Sefton 0 Wirral 10 TOTAL 140 North-Western Region Lancaster 10 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 20 Preston 20 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 10 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 10 West Lancashire 10 Chorley and South Ribble 10 Bolton 10 Bury 10 North Manchester 20 Central Manchester 10 South Manchester 20 Oldham 20 Rochdale 10 Salford 10 Stockport 20 Tameside and Glossop 20 Trafford 10 Wigan 20 TOTAL 270 Special Health Authorities Hospitals for Sick Children 10 National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery 10 The Royal Marsden Hospital 0 Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's Hospital 10 Broadmoor 0 Ashworth 0 Rampton 0 Sourc: HAP(STATS)B Non-Medical Workforce Cenus.
Notes: All figures are rounded to the nearest 10 whole number.
Totals may not add due to rounding.
'0' indicates a figure of 5.00 or less
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The percentage of Speech Therapists in post against funded establishment, March 1993, by Region Region Per cent. Northern 99.8 Yorkshire 99.2 Trent 99.1 East Anglian 97.8 North West Thames 96.0
Region Per cent. North East Thames 96.5 South East Thames 97.4 South West Thames 99.4 Wessex 95.3 Oxford 100.1 South Western 97.2 West Midlands 94.6 Mersey 95.7 North Western 104.0 SHAs 100.0 England 98.0 Source: Joint National Professional Manpower Initiative (March 1993).