§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is her estimate of the total increase in 354W the number of persons employed by the health service as administrators in the Yorkshire and Humberside Region following reorganisation of the service; and what is the total cost represented by this increase.
§ Mr. MeacherPrior to reorganisation of the National Health Service on 1st April 1974, Leeds Regional Hospital Board was responsible for most of the area now the concern of the Yorkshire Regional Health Authority. Some boundary changes have occurred and new functions have been assumed by health authorities so that the figures before and after reorganisation are not comparable and, as indicated in the notes, should be treated with some reserve.
30th September 1973 Leeds Hospital Region 661 Executive Councils (See Note 4) 50 Former Local Health Authority (see Notes 3 and 4) 75 786 30th September 1974 Yorkshire Health Region 727 Family Practitioner Committees 60 Primary Health Care 87 874 I regret that detailed comparisons are not available centrally of the cost of administrators in Yorkshire in 1973–74 and 1974–75.
Notes:
- 1. Administrative staff figures exclude secretarial, clerical and other specialised grades within the Administrative and Clerical group.
- 2. Hospital staff numbers relate to those employed in the former Leeds Regional Hospital Board, its associated hospital management committees and the Leeds Board of Governors.
- 3. Only former local health staff directly involved in the provision of community health services are shown. The 1973 figures exclude staff responsible for the central administration of community health services, for which £8 million, for England as a whole, mainly representing staff costs, was transferred to the National Health Service from local authorities with no corresponding transfer of staff. This represents a significant additional staff work load assumed by health authorities in 1974.
- 4. The figures quoted for former executive council and local health authority staff have been estimated, as a detailed breakdown, geographically and by grade, was not available from central statistics.
- 5. All figures used relate to whole time equivalents.