§ Mr. Bowdenasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many trained chiropodists are employed by each local authority; how many trained and untrained chiropodists, respectively, are employed on an agency basis within the areas of each authority; and what number of full-time chiropodists each of these figures represent per 1,000 population over 65 years of age.
§ Sir George Young[pursuant to his reply, 18 July 1979, c. 740]:
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CHIROPODISTS—WHOLE-TIME EQUIVALENT—WORKING IN EACH AREA HEALTH AUTHORITY AND PER 1,000 POPULATION IN EACH AREA OVER AGE 65. As at 30 September 1977 Chiropodists Region and Area WTE WTE Per 1,000 Population over 65 (a) (b) (c) NORTHERN Cleveland 7.0 0.11 Cumbria 26.0 0.36 Durham 20.4 0.24 Northumberland 14.3 0.13 Gateshead 5.1 0.16 Newcastle upon Tyne 12.1 0.27 North Tyneside 5.1 0.18 South Tyneside 2.0 0.08 Sunderland 6.5 0.11 YORKSHIRE Humberside 31.9 0.27 North Yorkshire 22.1 0.23 Bradford 28.9 0.26 Calderdale 8.1 0.35 Kirklees 19.3 0.37 Leeds 31.5 0.29 Wakefield 12.1 0.31 TRENT Derbyshire 24.4 0.20 Leicestershire 29.4 0.27 Lincolnshire 27.3 0.23 Nottinghamshire 103.7 0.78 Barnsley 5.9 0.20 Doncaster 11.7 0.33 Rotherham 6.7 0.22 Sheffield 17.9 0.21 EAST ANGLIA Cambridgeshire 16.9 0.26 Norfolk 37.6 0.29 Suffolk 36.5 0.50 NORTH WEST THAMES Bedfordshire 22.6 0.42 Hertfordshire 27.8 0.26 Barnet 14.3 0.23 Brent and Harrow 21.0 0.33 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 11.6 0.10 109W
Chiropodists Region and Area WTE WTE Per 1,000 Population over 65 (a) (b) (c) Hillingdon 10.0 0.32 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 8.6 0.13 NORTH EAST THAMES Essex 38.7 0.25 Barking and Havering 17.8 0.33 Camden and Islington 43.7 0.77 City, Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets 21.3 0.22 Enfield and Haringey 9.5 0.12 RedbridgeandWaltham Forest 11.1 0.15 SOUTH EAST THAMES East Sussex 28.7 0.27 Kent 39.5 0.18 Bexley and Greenwich 17.8 0.46 Bromley 160 0.34 Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark 51.8 0.44 SOUTH WEST THAMES Surrey 35.6 0.24 West Sussex 29.7 0.24 Croydon 16.5 0.36 Kingston and Richmond 17.8 0.43 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 47.0 0.42 WESSEX Dorset 12.3 0.10 Hampshire 37.4 0.22 Wiltshire 21.6 0.22 Isle of Wight 3.0 0.13 OXFORD Berkshire 12.8 0.15 Buckinghamshire 33.9 0.44 Northamptonshire 28.9 0.43 Oxfordshire 19.0 0.31 SOUTH WESTERN Avon 35.2 0.30 Cornwail and Scilly Isles 17.1 0.24 Devon 34.5 0.19 Gloucestershire 19.9 0.28 Somerset 20.2 0.34 WEST MIDLANDS Hereford and Worcester 33.9 0.41 Salop 16.1 0.12 Staffordshire 34.2 0.28 Warwickshire 13.2 0.23 Birmingham 18.2 0.12 Coventry 10.0 0.25 Dudley 6.4 0.07 Sandwell 12.0 0.06 Solihull 9.3 0.47 Walsall 9.2 0.30 Wolverhampton 4.2 0.12 MERSEY Cheshire 27.4 0.24 Liverpool 28.7 0.35 St Helens with Knowsley 14.6 0.20 Sefton 9.4 0.21 Wirral 14.1 0.26
Chiropodists Region and Area WTE WTE Per 1,000 Population over 65 (a) (b) (c) NORTH WESTERN Lancashire 82.4 0.36 Bolton 15.3 0.41 Bury 15.3 0.62 Manchester 45.3 0.61 Oldham 12.8 0.04 Rochdale 9.4 0.34 Salford 26.1 0.69 Stockport 16.5 0.42 Tameside 14.9 0.43 Trafford 9.9 0.32 Wigan 18.2 0.15 NOTES:
1. These figures include salaried chiropodists both full-time and part-time, chiropodists employed on a sessional basis, chiropodists providing services on a fee per treatment basis—domiciliary and surgery treatments—and those chiropodists providing services on an agency basis (that is, chiropodists providing services to voluntary organisations acting on behalf of area health authorities).
2. Under the National Health Service (Professions Supplementary to Medicine) Regulations 1974 SI 1974 No. 296, health authorities are prohibited from employing chiropodists who are not state-registered. There are a number of unregistered chiropodists with a protected right to work in the National Health Service—this is under provisions in the 1964 Regulations which the existing ones replaced—but separate information as to numbers so employed are not available centrally.
3. Information enabling the chiropodists employed on an agency basis in each health authority to be distinguished separately is not available centrally; however, there were only 70.6 whole time equivalent chiropodists employed on this basis in England at 30 September 1977. When expressed as a percentage of population over 65 years in each area the numbers would in any case be insignificant.