§ Andrew GeorgeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many specialist full-time equivalent NHS consultants are employed to practise in each NHS acute trust, broken down by(a)specialty and (b)the number of resident population per consultant in England. [174861]
§ Mr. HuttonInformation on the number of whole time equivalent (wte) national health service consultants employed to practice in each NHS acute trust, broken down by specialty has been placed in the Library.
166WPopulation data by organisation is not available. Information on the number of wte consultants and population per consultant within each strategic health authority is shown in the table.
Hospital, Public Health medicine and Community Health Services (HCHS): medical and dental consultants within each strategic
health authority and population per consultant
1England at 30 September 2003 Whole time equivalents wte Population per
consultant
1England 26,341 1,888.9 of which Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 1,220 1,796.0 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 572 2,811.7 Essex 582 2,785.3 North West London 1,215 1,469.2 North Central London 1,214 1,001.3 North East London 829 1,854.8 South East London 1,181 1,281.7 South West London 763 1,708.5 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear 1,008 1,371.3 County Durham and Tees Valley 624 1,813.5 North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire 651 2,498.4 West Yorkshire 1,212 1,723.2 Cumbria and Lancashire 801 2,384.6 Greater Manchester 1,544 1,628.0 Cheshire and Merseyside 1,360 1,725.2 Thames Valley 1,028 2,041.7 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 830 2,157.2 Kent and Medway 640 2,484.4 Surrey and Sussex 1.145 2,236.5 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 1,119 1,940.3 South West Peninsula 784 2,029.8 Dorset and Somerset 510 2,354.1 South Yorkshire 855 1,481.5 Trent 1,128 2,344.3 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland 672 2,339.3 Shropshire and Staffordshire 638 2,339.8 Birmingham and The Black Country 1,426 1,593.0 West Midlands South 691 2,229.8 Other 101 n/a 1Population per consultant for England calculated using population census 2001 Based Projections for 2003. Population per consultant by SHA calculated using population census 2001 Resident Estimates for 2002 n/a = not applicable. Source: Department of Health medical and dental workforce census