§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will make a statement on the changes in staff and functions in district health authorities and hospitals which he wishes to take place in consequence of the recommendations of the Griffiths report;
(2) if the new management appointments to take place in district health authorities and hospitals in consequence of the Griffiths report should be for a specified period of years; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeWe have required regional and district health authorities to establish the general management function at authority and unit level by identifying individual general managers to take personal
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Average number of births Hospital Area health authority/ District health authority 1979 295 Townend Maternity Humberside 467 Nightingale Maternity Home Derbyshire 46 Lady Forester, Much Wenlock Salop 126 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Maternity Home Camden and Islington 94 Lady Forester Memorial, Broseley Salop 323 Workington Infirmary Memorial Cumbria 372 Dellwood Maternity Home Berkshire 1980 364 Overdene Maternity Home Cleveland 675 Bloxwich Maternity Home Walsall 119 Grange Maternity Unit Cambridgeshire 73 Cranford Lodge Cheshire Figures not Highfield Maternity Wirral available centrally 356 Bearsted Memorial Enfield and Haringey 285 Burton House Maternity Home Staffordshire 1981 2,667 Fulford Maternity North Yorkshire 2,050 Clatterbridge Wirral 1,411 St. Martin's Wiltshire 72 Skegness and District Lincolnshire 221 Highbury Nottinghamshire 2,227 Nottingham Womens Nottinghamshire 800 Firs Maternity Nottinghamshire 976 St. Margaret's Essex 47 Haltwhistle War Memorial Northumbria 121 Urmston Cottage Trafford 29 Abingdon Oxfordshire responsibility for the planning, implementation and control of the authority's or unit's performance. The costs and staffing requirements are to be met within existing management provision. General managers' contracts should run initially for a fixed-term of three to five years, which may be reviewed annually after that.