HC Deb 28 January 1983 vol 35 cc542-3W
Mr. Jim Spicer

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he can give the total figures and the proportions of the population they represent for the number of males and females (a) of retiring age and over and (b) of 80 years of age and over in the latest year for which figures are available, for 1962 and 1945.

Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

The information requested is as follows:

terms of whole time equivalents per 1,000 population in each of the health regions; what are the reasons for the differences; and what action is being taken to reduce disparities.

Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

Figures covering rheumatology and rehabilitation are set out as follows.

Differences between regions are due to such factors as:

  1. i. different approaches to meeting the service need;
  2. ii. within broad national guidelines, different perceptions of the relative priority to be given to this, over other, service needs;

Hospital Medical Consultants and Senior Registrars in Post in Rheumatology and Rehabilitation at 30 September 1981
Region Consultant Senior Registrar
Number Whole time Whole time per 1,000* population Number Whole time Whole time per 1,000* population
Northern 14 13.5 0.0044 3 2.5 0.0008
Yorkshire 7 5.1 0.0014 2 2.0 0.0006
Trent 16 14.1 0.0031 4 3.6 0.0008
East Anglia 11 10.5 0.0056 4 2.2 0.0012
North West Thames 30 21.9 0.0064 17 14.7 0.0043
North East Thames 34 27.3 0.0074 9 8.6 0.0023
South East Thames 25 24.2 0.0068 7 5.2 0.0015
South West Thames 18 16.1 0.0056 4 4.0 0.0014
Wessex 21 20.0 0.0074 4 4.0 0.0015
Oxford 16 14.6 0.0063 5 4.1 0.0018
South Western 6 3.6 0.0011 1 1.0 0.0003
West Midlands 5 4.4 0.0009 3 3.0 0.0006
Mersey 4 4.0 0.0016
North Western 20 16.7 0.0042 6 5.3 0.0013
London Postgraduate Teaching Hospitals 6 2.3 .. 3 2.8 ..
Total 233 198.2 0.0043 72 63.0 0.0014
* Based on mid-1980 estimates.

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