§ Mr. Neil Thorneasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, for the financial years ending April 1980 and April 1981. what proportion of the total estimated number of staff in the National Health Service will be (a) clerical and administrative, (b) ancillary and (c) paramedical and professionally trained medical personnel.
§ Sir George Young[pursuant to the reply, 6 May 1980, c. 103–4] : The table below gives the latest actual figures. These provide the best available estimate for the two years requested.
NHS Manpower, England : 30 September 1978 Percentage (rounded) Total NHS Manpower of which : 100 Administrative and Clerical Staff 12 Ancillary Staff 21 Paramedical Staff (i.e. staff in professions supplementary to medicine) 3 Medical Staff and practitioners 7 Note : Percentages are based on whole-time equivalents, except in the case of general medical practitioners for whom numbers are included.