§ Mr. Carter-Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the numbers of community midwives for each area health authority and each regional health authority for the years 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979.
§ Sir George YoungPrecise information about the number of community midwives is not available centrally. Information about midwives employed solely on the district on a whole-time equivalent basis as at 30 September in each year is available from "Primary Health Care Services; Health Visiting, Nursing and Midwivery Staff Statistics; England" for each of the years 1976, 1977 and 1978. Copies of these have been placed in the Library. The figures for 30 September 1979 are as follows:
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Authority WTE Northern RHA 194.6 Cleveland AHA 44.0 Cumbria AHA 6.0 Durham AHA 42.0 Northumberland AHA — Gateshead AHA 17.0
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Authority WTE Newcastle AHA(T) 26.7 North Tyneside AHA 10.0 South Tyneside AHA 16.0 Sunderland AHA 32.9 Yorkshire RHA 196.7 Humberside 37.5 N. Yorkshire AHA 12.7 Bradford AHA 50.1 Calderdale AHA 16.0 Kirklees AHA 6.7 Leeds AHA(T) 58.4 Wakefield AHA 15.3 Trent RHA 323.5 Derbyshire AHA 60.5 Leicester AHA(T) 73.3 Lincoln AHA 18.3 Nottingham AHA(T) 107.1 Barnsley AHA — Doncaster AHA 21.0 Rotherham AHA 22.8 Sheffield AHA(T) 20.5 N.W. Thames RHA 121.1 Bedford AHA 47.6 Hertford AHA 50.1 Barnet AHA — Brent AHA — Ealing AHA(T) 19.4 Hillingdon AHA — Kensington AHA 4.0 S.E. Thames RHA 157.0 East Sussex AHA 21.1 Kent AHA 71.3 Greenwich AHA 12.0 Bromley AHA 19.0 Lambeth AHA(T) 33.6 Wessex RHA 225.2 Dorset AHA 30.7 Hampshire AHA(T) 142.3 Wiltshire AHA 43.2 Isle of Wight AHA 9.0 South Western RHA 236.0 Avon AHA(T) 55.3 Cornwall AHA 33.5 Devon AHA 91.4 Gloucester AHA 47.6 Somerset AHA 8.2 East Anglia RHA 179.5 Cambridge AHA(T) 53.2 Norfolk AHA 91.0 Suffolk AHA 35.3 N.E. Thames RHA 222.8 Essex AHA 99.9 Barking AHA 30.3 Camden AHA(T) 12.0 Enfield AHA 33.0 City AHA(T) 23.6 Redbridge AHA 24.0 S.W. Thames RHA 49.5 Surrey AHA 26.3 West Sussex AHA 7.0 Croydon AHA — Kingston AHA 11.2 Merton AHA(T) 5.0 Oxford RHA 101.5 Berkshire AHA 28.7 Buckinghamshire AHA 27.0
Authority WTE Northants AHA 28.0 Oxford AHA(T) 17.8 West Midlands RHA 400.4 Hereford AHA 43.5 Salop AHA — Stafford AHA 64.8 Warwick AHA 40.6 Birmingham AHA(T) 81.7 Coventry AHA 26.0 Dudley AHA 27.0 Sandwell AHA 29.3 Solihull AHA 20.0 Walsall AHA 310 Wolverhampton AHA 36.5 Mersey RHA 186.9 Cheshire AHA 70.5 Liverpool AHA(T) 33.9 St. Helens AHA 34.0 Sefton AHA 13.0 Wirral AHA 35.5 North Western RHA 389.4 Lancashire AHA 107.2 Bolton AHA 27.0 Bury AHA 16.4 Manchester AHA(T) 45.5 Oldham AHA 33.8 Rochdale AHA 23.0 Salford AHA(T) 19.5 Stockport AHA 29.0 Tameside AHA 30.3 Trafford AHA 20.0 Wigan AHA 37.7 Many health authorities have organised their hospital and community midwifery services as integrated services so that the figures in the above table and those for earlier years do not necessarily provide an accurate indication of the whole-time equivalent number of midwives who were working in the community at the census dates.