§ Mr. Cousinsasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the number of fully-trained speech therapists employed in each region of the National Health Service for 1984–85, 1985–86 and 1986–87; and what was the rate of turnover of fully-trained speech therapy staff in each region for those years.
§ Mr. NewtonStaff in post figures are shown in the table. Information on turnover of staff is not held centrally.
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National Health Service staff in post at 30 September Speech therapists by regional health authority and England Whole time equivalent1 1984 1985 1986 Northern regional health authority 120 130 160 Yorkshire regional health authority 130 140 150 Trent regional health authority 200 220 250 East Anglian regional health authority 100 100 110 North West Thames regional health authority 180 190 210 North East Thames regional health authority 200 220 230 South East Thames regional health authority 180 190 210 South West Thames regional health authority 150 150 170 Wessex regional health authority 100 120 130 Oxford regional health authority 110 130 140 South Western regional health authority 150 160 170 West Midlands regional health authority 210 240 250 Mersey regional health authority 90 100 100 North Western regional health authority 210 210 220 London PGSHAs 20 30 30 ENGLAND TOTAL 2,150 2,340 2,510 Source: DHSS (SR7) Annual Census of National Health Service non-medical manpower.
1 Figures are independently rounded to the nearest ten (10) whole time equivalents.