§ Mr. Spearingasked the Secretary of State for Social Services which health districts in England and Wales have two or more vacancies for permanent posts of full-time equivalent consultant radiologists, giving the number of vacancies in each instance.
§ Mr. MoyleThis information is not collected centrally on a district basis. The table below gives the number of vacant posts at 30th September 1976 in each regional health authority, with whole-time equivalents in brackets. About half the vacant posts were occupied by locums.
Northern … 4 (2.6) Yorkshire … 2 (1.1) Trent … 3 (3.0) East Anglia … 0 North West Thames … 2 (1.8) North East Thames … 12 (7.8) South East Thames … 4 (3.3) South West Thames … 9 (6.1) Wessex … 3 (3.0) Oxford … 0 South Western … 4 (4.0) West Midlands … 6 (6.0) Mersey … 0 North Western … 1 (1.0) Wales … 2 (2.0) There are also five vacancies—1.6 whole-time equivalent—in postgraduate teaching hospitals.