HC Deb 15 February 1982 vol 18 c43W
Mr. Moyle

asked the Secretary of state for Social Services how many people were awaiting treatment at the Guy's hearing centre on the last convenient date for which figures are available.

Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

Information about waiting lists at individual units is not available centrally. The right hon. Member may care to contact the Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham area health authority (teaching) direct.

National Health Manpower* United Kingdom 30 September 1980
Whole-time equivalents
†Hospital Medical and Dental(including locums)Dental †CHS Medical and Dental(including locums) ‡Nursing and Midwifery **General Medical Practitions General Dental Practioners ††Total Manpower
1. Northern 2,210 300 25,170 1,490 610 54,950
2. Yorkshire 2,260 310 28,150 1,780 840 62,060
3. Trent 2,840 340 32,740 2,170 930 74,240
4. E Anglian 1,190 140 13,300 960 440 30,180
5. NW Thames 3,030 350 27,060 1,960 1,390 62,920
6. NE Thames 3,190 350 30,850 1,940 1,060 70,900
7. SE Thames 2,930 360 29,870 1,860 1,060 69,930
8. SW Thames 2,070 310 24,470 1,550 1,080 53,910
9. Wessex 1,600 260 20,110 1,390 730 44,200
10. Oxford 1,520 190 15,540 1,140 600 35,120
11. South western 1,980 270 24,790 1,740 1,030 54,840
12. West Midlands 3,320 460 38,270 2,500 1,120 84,950
13. Mersey 1,770 240 21,410 1,220 600 46,000
14. North Western 3,040 420 33,970 1,980 930 75,110
London PG Hospitals 970 — 4,350 — — 11,300
London Ambulance Service — — — — — 2,710
DEB — — — — — 1,530
PPA — — — — — 2,210
England Total 33,900 4,300 370,100 23,700 12,400 835,600
Wales 2,000 300 24,400 1,500 600 55,000
Scotland 5,300 800 58,600 3,300 1,300 124,000
Northern Ireland‡‡ 1,500 200 17,300 800 400 37,400
United Kingdom Total 42,700 5,600 470,400 29,200 14,700 1,051,900

Footnotes

* Owing to rounding the sum of the component figures may not equal the total.

†Includes whole-time eqivalents of hospital and community health medical staff except hospital practitioners, part-time medical officers, (clinical assistants), general medical practitioners participating in Hospital Staff Funds and occasional sessional staff in Community Health Service.

‡Includes agency nurses and midwives and Health Visitor students.

** Figures for General Medical Practitioners as at 1 October.

††Includes all directly employed staff (expressed at whole-time equivlents) and all full time and art time staff in contract with FPCs expressed as numbers and not whole-time equivalents (figures for the general ophthalmic service are as at 31 December).

‡‡Northern Ireland:

  1. (i)Medical and dental staff exclude locums, because they cannot be identified.
  2. (ii)Owing to the intergration of the Health Services with the Personal Social Services, information for employed staff other than Nursing and Midwifery Staff has had in the past to be determined on the basis of budgetary information.
  3. (iii)Figures for employed staff as at 30 December; figures for practitioners as at 1 July.