§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what information he has concerning the total numbers of inpatients dealt with in hospitals in the north-western region in each of the years since 1975;
(2) what information he has concerning the total number of outpatients seen at hospitals in the north-west region in each of the years since 1975.
§ Mr. John Patten:The information requested is given in the table. Day case attendances are included to complete the picture.
Year General Medical Practitioners* All Hospital Doctors† Consultants Total Medical Personnel‡ 1978 1,877 2,833 1,008 3,380 1979 1,915 2,926 1,034 3,477 1980 1,981 2,985 1,050 3,562 1981 2,047 3,097 1,085 3,699 1982 2,056 3,183 1,126 3,780 1983 2,118 3,247 1,163 3,868 1984 2,139 3,246 1,180 3,853 Note: The figures are for numbers of staff (not whole time equivalents) and excluded locums, hospital practitioners and part-time medical officers (clinical assistants).
* General practitioners include all principals, assistants and trainees, and relate to 1 October.
† Hospital doctors include consultants.
‡ Total medical personnel include hospital and community health doctors, but exclude general practitioners, who are not directly employed by North Western Region.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social services what information he has concerning the number of midwives and health visitors employed in the north-western region in each of the years since 1978.
§ Mr. Kenneth Clarke:The figures requested are as follows: 181W
North-Western Region Whole-time equivalent* Staff in post at 30 September Midwives† Health visitors‡|| 1978 1,510 880 1979 1,550 920 1980 1,710 890 1981 1,680 910 1982 1,700 920 1983 1,850 1,050 * All figures are rounded to the nearest 10. † Includes all state certified hospital and community midwives. Excludes agency staff. ‡ Includes health visitors in both the community and school health services, health visitor field work teachers, TB visitors with HV certificates, dual/triple posts and bank health visitors. Excludes HV students. || Due to changes in methods of data collection in 1980, wte staffing figures for health visitors from 1980 onwards are not directly comparable with those for previous years. In addition, in September 1983, information on bank nursing staff was collected via separate manual returns, whereas they had previously been included with other staff on magnetic tape returns. A minor break in continuity will therefore exist between figures for 1982 and 1983.
Figures for September 1984 are not yet available at this level of detail.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what information he has concerning the numbers of dentists in the north-western region offering National Health Service facilities in each of the years since 1975.
§ Mr. Kenneth Clarke:The numbers of dentists in the hospital, community dental and general dental services in the north-western region at 30 September in each year since 1975 are given in the table.
Year Total Hospital Staff CDS Staff General Dental Practitioners 1975 1,055 88 191 776 1976 1,122 87 210 825 1977 1,169 101 212 856 1978 1,210 102 222 886 1979 1,230 107 217 906 1980 1,239 109 200 930 1981 1,247 104 197 946 1982 1,311 108 200 1,003 1983 1,329 107 190 1,032 1984 1,373 104 191 1,087 Note: The figures are for numbers of staff (not whole-time equivalents) and exclude locums, hospital practitioners, and part-time dental officers (clinical assistants).