§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the total number of people employed by the National Health Service in 1960 and in 1979; and if he will also show the percentage employed (a) as doctors and nurses and (b) in administration.
§ Sir George Young[pursuant to his reply, 8 November 1979, c. 303–4]: The following is the corrected information: (* corrected figure)
845W
(3) Includes support staff managers, but excludes ambulance officers. "Administrators cannot be distinguished within the general category of administrative and clerical staff as there is no agreed definition of "administrator" which could be used for this purpose. Upon 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. (4) 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. (5) Excludes agency nurses and midwives.