§ Mr. Farrasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the number of hospital doctors needed to bring their number up to the national average in: (a) the Leicestershire area and (b) the Trent Region.
§ Mr. Moyle:At 30th September 1976 an additional 587 whole-time equivalent hospital doctors would have been required in the Trent Region to bring their number up to the average for England. Statistics for areas are not held centrally, so that the corresponding calculation cannot be done for Leicestershire.
30th September 1976 Whole-time equivalents per 100,000 population All National Health Service staff Hospital Medical and Dental Staff Hospital Nursing and Midwifery Staff (1) (2) (3) England (4) … … 1,591.2 61.5 654.0 TrentRHA(4) … … 1,373.6 47.9 566.2 Leicester AHA(T) (4) … … 1,152.5 42.5 488.2 NOTES
(1) All NHS staff are shown because, since 1975, it has not been possible to apportion the time of staff who provide common services (e.g. administrative and clerical, ancillary, maintenance and works staff) between that spent in hospitals and in community services. Family practitioner services contractors and agency staff are excluded. The figures for England are provisional.
(2) Permanent paid and honorary hospital medical and dental staff, excluding general practitioners in part-time clinical assistant and hospital practitioner posts.
(3) Information on qualified hospital nurses and midwives is not yet available nationally for 30th September 1976. However, provisional figures for all hospital nursing and midwifery staff (i.e. including trainees and unqualified staff) are available and have been shown. Nursing cadets are included but agency staff excluded.
Urgent Cases On List Over one month Non-Urgent Cases on List Over One year Number Percentage of All Urgent Cases Number Percentage of All Non-Urgent Cases (a) Leicestershire AHA … 15 19 535 31 (b) TrentRHA … 697 63 5,137 35 (c) England … 5,220 60 45,205 29
§ Mr. Farrasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a list showing the number of persons who have
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§ Mr. Farrasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what is the number of hospital nurses and midwives per 100,000 population: (a) in the Leicestershire area, (b) in the Trent Region and (c)nationally;
(2)what is the number of all hospital staffs per 100,000 population: (a) in the Leicestershire area, (b) in the Trent Region and (c)nationally;
(3)what is the number of hospital, medical and dental staff per 100,000 population: (a)in the Leicestershire area, (b) in the Trent Region and (c) nationally.
§ Mr. MoyleThe available information is as follows:
(4) Population figures relate to the population living within an auhority's area rather than to the population served by it.
§ Mr. Farrasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the average waiting time for an operation in the National Health Service involving general surgery: (a) in the Leicestershire area, (b) in the Trent Region and (c) nationally.
§ Mr. MoyleInformation on average waiting times is not available. The following table shows the number and percentage of urgent cases waiting for more than one month and of non-urgent cases waiting for more than one year for admission to the general surgery specialty on 31st March 1977.
been waiting longer than 12 months for general surgery in each of the area health authorities comprising the Trent Region.
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§ Mr. MoyleThe following is the information at 31st March 1977:
Area Derbyshire … 223 Leicestershire … 535 Lincolnshire … 2,024 Nottinghamshire … 633 Barnsley … 339 Doncaster … 682 Rotherham … 446 Sheffield … 255
§ Mr. Farrasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a list showing the numbers of persons who have been waiting longer than 12 months for general surgery in the Trent Region and in the other national regions.
§ Mr. MoyleFollowing are the numbers of non-urgent cases which had been waiting for longer than 12 months for general surgery in each of the health authority regions in England at 31st March 1977, the latest date for which figures are available:
Region General Surgery Trent … … … 5,137 Northern … … … 2,083
Urgent Cases on List Over One Month Non-Urgent Cases on List Over One Year Number Percentage of All Urgent Cases Number Percentage of All Non-Urgent Cases (a) Leicestershire AHA … Nil — 628 50 (b) Trent RHA … 1,070 90 4,293 43 (c) England … 6,314 77 27,580 31
§ Mr. Farrasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the number of hospital beds for each 1,000 population at the latest available date: (a) in the Leicestershire area, (b) in the Trent Region and (c) nationally.
§ Mr. MoyleFollowing are the average daily numbers of available beds per 1,000 population for 1976.
Leicestershire Area Health Authority 6.0 Trent Regional Health Authority 7.1 England 8.2