HC Deb 13 April 1988 vol 131 cc174-8W
Mr. Irving

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the numbers of community psychiatric nurses employed by each district health authority.

Mr. Newton

Information in the exact form requested is not available. However the number of nursing staff employed in the community psychiatric service in each district health authority in England at 30 September 1986 is shown in the table.

NHS community psychiatric nursing staff at 30 September 1986 England
Region Whole-time equivalent1
Northern 158
Yorkshire 199
Trent 260
East Anglian 106
North West Thames 168
North East Thames 137
South East Thames 208
South West Thames 209
Wessex 176
Oxford 122
South Western 147
West Midlands 255
Mersey 156
North Western 228
London post-graduate special health authorities 2
England Total 2,532

Northern Regional Health Authority
District health authorities Whole-time equivalent1
Hartlepool 9
North Tees 10
South Tees 13
East Cumbria 11
South Cumbria 10
West Cumbria 2
Darlington 15
Durham l0
North West Durham 4
District health authorities Whole-time equivalent1
South West Durham 14
Northumberland 20
Gateshead 4
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (T) 18
North Tyneside
South Tyneside
Sunderland 18
Regional Total 158

Yorkshire Regional Health Authority
District Health Authorities Whole-Time Equivalent1
Hull 7
East Yorkshire 31
Grimsby 7
Scunthorpe 12
Northallerton 11
York 22
Scarborough 9
Harrogate 2
Bradford 9
Airedale 17
Calderdale 6
Huddersfield 9
Dewsbury 5
Leeds Western (T) 22
Leeds Eastern (T) 11
Wakefield 11
Pontefract 8
Regional Total 199

Trent regional health authority
District health authorities Whole-time equivalent1
North Derbyshire 26
South Derbyshire 33
Leicestershire (T) 43
North Lincolnshire 25
South Lincolnshire 16
Bassetlaw 7
Central Nottinghamshire 13
Nottingham (T) 39
Barnsley 14
Doncaster 9
Rotherham 12
Sheffield (T) 24
Regional Total 260

East Anglia Regional Health Authority
District Health Authorities Whole-Time equivalent1
Cambridge (T) 14
Peterborough 13
West Suffolk 4
East Suffolk 18
Norwich 24
Great Yarmouth and Waveney 12
West Norfolk and Wisbech 8
Huntingdon 13
Regional Total 106

North West Thames Regional Health Authority
District health authorities Whole-time equivalent1
North Bedfordshire 9
South Bedfordshire 11
North Hertfordshire 7
East Hertfordshire 10
North West Hertfordshire 8
South West Hertfordshire 4
Barnet 16
Harrow 15
Hillingdon 8
Hounslow and Spelthorne 12
Ealing 27
Brent 10
Paddington and North Kensington (T) 6
Riverside 26
Regional Total 168

North-East Thames Regional Health Authority
District Health Authorities Whole-time equivalent1
Basildon and Thurrock 11
Mid Essex 13
North East Essex 18
West Essex 11
Southend 4
Barking/Havering/Brentwood 13
Hampstead (T) 20
Bloomsbury (T) 10
Islington 8
City and Hackney (T) 7
Newham 9
Tower Hamlets (T) 2
Enfield 3
Haringey 2
Redbridge 3
Waltham Forest 3
Regional Total 137

South East Thames regional health authority
District health authorities Whole-time equivalents1
Brighton 21
Eastbourne 21
Hastings 23
South East Kent 29
Canterbury and Thanet
Dartford and Gravesham 10
Maidstone 11
Medway 12
Tunbridge Wells 9
Bexley 13
Greenwich 11
Bromley 1
West Lambeth (T) 20
Camberwell (T) 9
Lewisham and North Southwark (T) 20
Regional Total 208

South West Thames regional health authority
District health authorities Whole-time equivalent1
North West Surrey 14
West Surrey and North East Hampshire 9
South West Surrey 8
Mid-Surrey 20
East Surrey 13
Chichester 25
District health authorities Whole-lime equivalent1
Mid-Downs 25
Worthing 13
Croydon 13
Kingston and Esher 15
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 9
Wandsworth (T) 32
Merton and Sutton 14
Regional Total 209

Wessex Regional Health Authority
District Health Authorities Whole-Time equivalent1
East Dorset 35
West Dorset 19
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 20
Southampton and South West Hampshire (T) 20
Winchester 16
Basingstoke and North Hampshire 8
Salisbury 12
Swindon 13
Bath 34
Isle of Wight
Regional Total 176

Oxford Regional Health Authority
District Health Authorities Whole-time equivalent1
East Berkshire 24
West Berkshire 15
Aylesbury Vale 21
Wycombe 11
Milton Keynes 5
Kettering 15
Northampton 14
Oxfordshire (T) 18
Regional Total 122

South Western regional health authority
District health authorities Whole-time equivalent1
Bristol and Weston (T) 16
Frenchay 12
Southmead 17
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 15
Exeter 29
North Devon 9
Plymouth 6
Torbay 10
Cheltenham 11
Gloucester 12
Somerset 12
Regional Total 147

West Midland Regional Health Authority
District Health Authorities Whole-Time equivalent1
Bromsgrove and Redditch 10
Herefordshire 12
Kidderminster and District 6
Worcester and District 14
Shropshire 27
Mid-Staffordshire 18
North Staffordshire 25
South East Staffordshire 9
Rugby
District Health Authorities Whole-Time equivalent1
North Warwickshire 4
South Warwickshire 18
Central Birmingham (T) 6
East Birmingham 9
North Birmingham 12
South Birmingham 18
West Birmingham 6
Coventry 16
Dudley 15
Sandwell 10
Solihull 14
Walsall
Wolverhampton 6
Regional Total 255

Mersey regional health authority
District health authorities Whole-time equivalent1
Chester 11
Crew 10
Halton 11
Macclesfield 7
Warrington 20
Liverpool (T) 29
St. Helens with Knowsley 38
Southport and Formby 9
South Sefton 7
Wirral 15
Regional Total 156

North Western regional health authority
District health authorities Whole-time equivalent1
Lancaster 13
Blackpool Wyre and Fylde 17
Preston 15
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 18
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale
West Lancashire 8
Chorley and South Ribble 15
Bolton 12
Bury 13
North Manchester 13
Central Manchester (T) 10
South Manchester (T) 16
Oldham 6
Rochdale
Salford (T) 19
Stockport 14
Tameside and Glossop 11
Trafford 15
Wigan 14
Regional Total 228
Source: DHSS (SR7) Annual Census of NHS Non-Medical Manpower.
1 All figures are independently rounded to the nearest whole-time equivalent.
(T) Denotes Teaching District Health Authorities.