§ Mr. Gardnerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the numbers of National Health Service consultants per 100,000 of the population in the Sheffield region as compared with the Metropolitan regions and the national average.
§ Dr. John DunwoodyThe numbers, in terms of whole-time equivalents, are:
Medical Dental Sheffield region … 11.7 0.4 Metropolitan regions … 19.4 0.6 England and Wales … 15.9 0.5 All these figures include teaching hospital staff, employed by boards of governors. 12 of the 22 undergraduate teaching hospitals and all the postgraduate teaching hospitals are in the four metropolitan regions.