§ Mr. Thompsonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many consultants there are in the National Health Service in Scotland in each of the following categories: medical specialities—by speciality—surgical specialities—by speciality—pathology, psychiatry, anaesthetics,
MEDICAL CONSULTANTS IN POST IN SCOTLAND AT 30TH SEPTEMBER 1974 Specialty Whole-time posts Part-time posts Honorary appointments Total Medical specialties General medicine* … … 122 46 50 218 Communicable diseases … … 14 1 2 17 Dermatology … … 14 13 3 30 Geriatrics … … 40 2 2 44 Medical paediatrics … … 41 3 12 56 Neurology … … 7 3 4 14 Physical medicine/rehabilitation … 5 — — 5 Respiratory medicine … … 37 — 3 40 Sexually transmitted diseases … … 7 2 — 9 Total … … 287 70 76 433 Surgical specialties General surgery … … 76 60 20 156 Ear, nose and throat surgery … … 31 19 — 50 Neurosurgery … … 9 1 4 14 Ophthalmology … … 19 31 4 54 Orthopaedic surgery … … 52 24 6 82 Paediatric surgery … … 6 3 1 10 Plastic surgery … … 12 6 — 18 Thoracic surgery … … 9 — 2 11 Urology … … 6 16 — 22 Total … … 220 160 37 417 Laboratory Medicine Clinical chemistry … … 16 1 11 28 Haematology … … 20 — 7 27 Microbiology (including virology) … 35 — 24 59 Pathology … … 48 — 45 93 Total … … 119 1 87 207 Psychiatry (including child psychiatry and mental deficiency) 172 5 18 195 Anaesthetics … … 143 37 2 182 Radiotherapy … … 25 2 1 28 Radiology … … 85 10 3 98 Grand Total … … 1,051 285 224 1,560 * These numbers include consultants with special interests in cardiology, clinical pharmacology, gastroenterology, nephrology and rheumatology.