HC Deb 21 July 1986 vol 102 cc96-7W
Mr. Dobson

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many senior registrars are in post in each specialty; and how many have been given consultants' posts in each of the last five years.

Mr. Hayhoe

The numbers of senior registrars in post in each specialty are set out in table 1:

Table 1
Hospital medical and dental senior registrars at 30 September 1985 England and Wales
NHS permanent paid and honorary
Specialty Total NHS paid* Honorary
All medical specialties 3,287 2,624 663
General medicine group 826 585 241
General medicine 200 122 78
Thoracic medicine 35 27 8
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics 16 4 12
Nephrology 11 9 2
Endocrinology 7 3 4
Gastroenterology 8 2 6
Infectious diseases 5 4 1
Dermatology 53 49 4
Neurology 41 31 10
Cardiology 40 25 15
Rheumatology 62 55 7
Genito-urinary medicine 31 29 2
Medical oncology 16 5 11
Clinical physiology 4 4
Clinical neuro-physiology 8 8
Audiological medicine 7 6 1
Clinical genetics 8 5 3
Occupational health 3 2 1
Geriatric medicine 113 102 11
Paediatrics 147 93 54
Paediatric neurology 4 3 1
Other 7 1 6
Surgery group 589 496 93
General surgery 182 129 53
Paediatric surgery 6 6
Ear, nose, throat 59 55 4
T/O surgery 127 112 15
Urology 35 29 6
Plastic surgery 22 22
Cardio thoracic surgery 41 37 4
Neurosurgery 22 20 2
Ophthalmology 95 86 9
Accident and emergency 47 47
Obstetrics and gynaecology 138 88 50
Anaesthetics 386 355 31
Radiology group 310 293 17
Radiology 245 238 7
Radiotherapy 61 51 10
Nuclear therapy 4 4

Specialty Total NHS paid* Honorary
Pathology group 486 351 135
Chemical 68 55 13
Haematology 120 85 35
Histopathology 176 113 63
Medical microbiology 98 74 24
Neuropathology 13 13
Immuno-pathology 6 6
Blood transfusion 5 5
Psychiatry group 505 409 96
Mental handicap 43 39 4
Mental illness 326 243 83
C/A psychiatry 93 88 5
Forensic psychiatry 16 13 3
Psychotherapy 27 26
Dental specialties 104 58 46
Oral surgery 49 23 26
Orthadontics 33 29 4
Restorative dentistry 20 6 14
Paediatric dentistry 2 2
*Includes full-time and part-time senior registrars.
† Honorary staff are those employed by universities in research and elsewhere whose work requires access to NHS patients.

The latest available information on the numbers of doctors leaving senior registrar appointments in England and Wales on appointment as consultants in England and Wales is given in tables 2 and 3. Neither table includes data on transfers to and from such appointments in the armed forces, Scotland, Northern Ireland or elsewhere.

Table 2
NHS paid senior registrars who became consultants on next appointment, 1 October to 30 September the following year: England and Wales
Doctors Dentists
1979–80 464 12
1980–81 472 12
1981–82 489 l0
1982–83 483 9
1983–84 524 7
1984–85 n.a. n.a.

Table 3
Total senior registrars (both NHS paid and honorary) who became consultants on next appointment, 1 October to 30 September the following year: England and Wales
Doctors Dentists
1979–80 513 13
1980–81 512 15
1981–82 537 13
1982–83 520 12
1983–84 567 17
1984–85 n.a. n.a.

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