§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE MANPOWER—ENGLAND AS AT 30 SEPTEMBER—WHOLE-TIME EQUIVALENTS 1971 1977 All directly employed staff and independent contractors*, † for which: … … 675,269 793,952 Administrative and clerical‡ … … 70,396 99,037 Medical†, § … … 46,392 54,309 Manual workers≑ … … 185,464 192,666 * The figures for independent contractors are numbers of general medical practitioners, general dental practitioners, ophthalmic medical practitioners, ophthalmic opticians and dispensing opticians in the general ophthalmic services and general practice pharmacists—that is chemists, drug stores and appliance contractors. † The figures for general medical practitioners relate to 1 October. Some GPs are also employed on a part-time basis in the community health service and such effort is included in the totals for "medical and directly-employed staff". This implies an element of double-counting. Figures for the general ophthalmic services relate to 31 December. There is a small unquantifiable number of ophthalmic medical practitioners who are also general medical practitioners, which again implies a minor element of double-counting. ‡ Includes support staff managers, but excludes ambulance officers. Following NHS reorganisation on 1 April 1974 staff previously employed by local authority health and social service departments were transferred to area health authorities. Estimates of the number of staff in this category have been made so that the figure for 1971 is as consistent as possible with that for 1977. § Includes whole-time equivalents of hospital and community health medical staff except locums, hospital doctors holding paragraph 89 appointments, hospital doctors holding paragraph 94 appointments, hospital practitioner appointments and community health service occasional sessional staff. Also included are numbers of general medical practitioners and ophthalmic medical practitioners. ≑ Includes all ancillary staff and maintenance staff.