HC Deb 26 March 1969 vol 780 cc324-5W
Mr. Cordle

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many doctor qualified in 1968; and what are the comparable figures for 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964 and 1960.

Mr. Crossman

I understand that the numbers of students who obtained a first registrable medical degree or diploma a medical schools in Great Britain were as follows, for the academic years shown:

1960–61 1,844
1963–64 1,731
1964–65 1,805
1965–66 1,939
1966–67 1,933
1967–68 (provisional) 2,105
Whole-time equivalent of whole-time and part-time staff in post
Trained Nurses in Training Untrained Other
Nurses
Hospital Staffed beds allocated SRNs SENs Midwives Student Nurses Pupil Nurses Pupil Midwives Auxiliaries Nursing Staff
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
Orpington Hospital 518 90.5 43.4 94.0 59.1 54.5 2.7
Queen Mary's Hospital 358 82.6 17.9 29.3 131.0 33.0 36.7 3.7
Sidcup Cottage Hospital 13 4.0 3.3 2.6
Cray Valley Hospital 34 3.2 2.3 2.8 7.2 0.8
Sevenoaks Hospital 107 34.0 16.3 11.3 29.0 20.9
Emily Jackson Wing of Sevenoaks Hospital 30 5.5 2.0 10.0
Oak Lane Hospital 30 3.8 2.0 5.4
Sundridge Hospital 119 7.3 3.0 13.1
Cray Valley and Sevenoaks Group 1,209 230.9 90.2 43.4 225.0 88.1 33.0 150.4 7.2
364.5 346.1 157.6

The nurse staffing establishment laid down by the South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board is in respect of trained and untrained nurses together and of nurses in training and it relates to the whole group. It is set out below.

Trained and untrained nurses and midwives Nurses in training
502 332