§ Mr. Kirkwoodasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many hospital chaplains have been officially appointed in each health region in England and Wales, broken down by ecclesiastical denomination.
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§ Mrs. CurrieThe appointment of hospital chaplains is a matter for health authorities. Information on the number of part-time chaplains is not held centrally. Although we estimate there may be over 4,000 such appointments in England, there are no details of the denominations from which they come. The numbers of full-time chaplains in England are given in the table; three are from Free Church denominations and one is Roman Catholic, while the remainder are Anglicans. Figures for Wales are the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
Numbers of whole-time chaplains employed in the NHS at 30 September Region Numbers Northern RHA 10 Yorkshire RHA 10 Trent RHA 15 East Anglian RHA 4 North West Thames RHA 18 North East Thames RHA 16 South East Thames RHA 20 South West Thames RHA 17 Wessex RHA 13 Oxford RHA 6 South Western RHA 7 West Midlands RHA 18 Mersey RHA 10 North Western RHA 9 London PG(T) 3 England Total 176 Source: DHSS Annual census of NHS non-medical manpower.
§ Mr. Kirkwoodasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in the Official Report, hospitals, broken down by health region in England and Wales, whose annual turnover of in-patients averages more than 25 per cent. of people of a religious faith other than Christian and which do not have the official services of a hospital chaplain whose denomination is non-Christian.
Deaths from drowning, road accidents and horse-riding, England and Wales 1976–86 Drowning (994.1)2 Road accidents (E810–E829)2 Horse riding3 1976 1,188 6,115 10 1977 1,081 5,943 8 1978 1,090 6,772 20 1979 1,156 5,927 8 1980 1,194 5,905 11 1981 1,134 4,150 10 1982 1,116 5,380 19 1983 1,077 5,221 18 1984 971 5,172 23 1985 985 4,973 15 19861 908 4,895 13 1Provisional. Excludes registered deaths to non-residents of England and Wales 2International Classification of Diseases 8th and 9th Revisions. 3 Figures taken from a special OPCS study of sporting and leisure deaths. Because of a change in the collection of this data in 1982, figures prior to this year are not strictly comparable to those after; (for details of the changes in 1982, see OPCS Monitor DH4 84/3, "Fatal Accidents occuring during sporting and leisure activities, 1982".)