HC Deb 17 January 1980 vol 976 cc837-9W
Mr. Pavitt

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in the Official Report the names of the 33 hos- numbers approved for appointment to each authority by his Department.

Sir George Young

The following table shows the number of consultants in post and vacant consultant posts in each region in England and Wales on 30 September 1979. Copies of the national and regional tables for hospital medical and dental staff at 30 September 1979 will be placed in the Library as soon as they are published.

pitals in which consulting room facilities are rented to consultants for private patients together with the specialties for which they were used.

Sir George Young

Information about the number of hospitals where consulting rooms are rented to consultants for private practice and the specialties of those consultants is not kept centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. The only figures held centrally are those contained in House of Commons paper HC310, "The use of NHS hospital accommodation and services in England for the private practice of medicine during the year ended 31 December 1978", which was laid before this House on 18 December 1979. This referred to 33 health authorities—including three boards of governors—which had one or more such arrangements in one or more of their hospitals in 1978. These health authorities are:

  1. 1. Barking and Havering AHA
  2. 2. Barnet AHA
  3. 3. Birmingham AHA(T)
  4. 4. Bedfordshire AHA
  5. 5. Bradford AHA
  6. 6. Bromley AHA
  7. 7. Camden and Islington AHA
  8. 8. Cheshire AHA
  9. 9. Cleveland AHA
  10. 10. Durham AHA
  11. 11. Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow AHA
  12. 12. East Sussex AHA
  13. 13.Essex AHA
  14. 14. Gloucestershire AHA
  15. 15. Hertfordshire AHA
  16. 16. Humberside AHA
  17. 17. Kent AHA
  18. 18. Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster AHA
  19. 19. Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham AHA(T)
  20. 20. Leeds AHA
  21. 21. Manchester AHA(T)
  22. 22. Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth AHA
  23. 23. North Yorkshire AHA
  24. 24. Oxford AHA
  25. 25. Redbridge and Waltham Forest AHA
  26. 26. Salop AHA
  27. 27. Sefton AHA
  28. 28. Suffolk AHA
  29. 29. Surrey AHA
  30. 30. Wiltshire AHA

Boards of Governors

  1. 31. Hospital for Sick Children
  2. 32. National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases
  3. 33. Royal National Orthopaedic