§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many general practitioner (a) trainers and (b) trainees there are in each health region in England under the vocational training scheme; and how many in each group are women.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe attached table shows the number of general practitioners approved to act as trainers and the number of general practitioner trainees in each health region at 10 October 1981 with a breakdown, in the 235W case of the trainees, showing how many are women. A similar breakdown in respect of trainers could only be produced at disproportionate cost.
Region Trainees Trainers Male Female Total Total Northern 56 29 85 91 Yorkshire 59 46 105 138 Trent 79 56 135 189 East Anglia 51 27 78 114 North West Thames 74 44 118 153 North East Thames 71 47 118 155 South East Thames 80 33 113 162 South West Thames 54 40 94 116 Wessex 79 42 121 168 Oxford 47 19 66 94 South Western 86 39 125 173 West Midlands 106 47 153 183 Mersey 60 29 89 113 North Western no 52 162 191 Total 1,012 550 1,562 2,040
§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will set up an investigation into the possibility of establishing a salaried general practice service, an essential part of planned primary care, and as a method of levelling out any inequalities in general practitioner provision, especially in some inner city and remote rural areas, giving full consideration to variations in experience and training.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeI do not consider a salaried service to be essential to the planning of primary care, nor to the adequate provision of general medical services in inner city or remote rural areas. In exceptional circumstances my right hon. Friend has power to enable district health authorities to make special arrangements to provide general medical services if he considers it necessary to secure an adequate service in any area, and these arrangements could include the provision of salaried services.