HC Deb 12 July 1988 vol 137 cc173-7W
Mr. Tom Clarke

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table in theOfficial Report showing, for each local health authority in England and Wales, the total number of occupational therapists, the number per 1,000 of the population, and the number per 1,000 of the population aged over 65 years, over 75 years and over 85 years.

Mr. Newton

The table shows the number of occupational therapists in each district health authority and the rate per 100,000 population. It would not be meaningful to provide the ratio of staff to population in specific age groups as occupational therapists provide care to patients of all ages. Figures for Wales are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.

Qualified occupational therapists in post1 and rates per 100,000 population2 by district health authority at 30 September, 1986
Health Authority Qualified Occupational Therapists
Whole.time equivalent Rate per 100,000 population
England3 4,261 9.0
Northern RHA 181 5.9
Yorkshire RHA 290 8.1
Trent RHA 445 9.6
East Anglia RHA 239 12.0
North West Thames RHA 330 9.5
North East Thames RHA 322 8.6
South East Thames RHA 313 8.6
South West Thames RHA 288 9.7
Wessex RHA 280 9.7
Oxford RHA 259 10.4
South Western RHA 362 11.4
West Midlands RHA 376 7.2
Mersey RHA 205 8.5
North Western RHA 372 9.3
Hartlepool 1 1.1
North Tees 7 4.0
South Tees 21 7.1
East Cumbria 17 9.7
South Cumbria 5 3.0
West Cumbria 10 7.5
Darlington 10 8.3
Durham 10 4.4
North West Durham 6 7.3
South West Durham 3 2.1
Northumberland 16 5.3
Gateshead 10 4.6
Newcastle Upon Tyne 42 15.0
North Tyneside 2 1.0
South Tyneside 8 5.1
Sunderland 12 3.9
Hull 20 6.4
East Yorkshire 10 5.2
Grimsby 6 3.6
Scunthorpe 6 3.2
Northallerton 8 7.3
York 33 12.5
Scarborough 16 10.8
Harrogate 26 19.0
Bradford 13 3.8
Airedale 24 13.7
Calderdale 9 4.5
Huddersfield 17 8.2
Dewsbury 10 6.0
Leeds Western 40 11.1
Leeds Eastern 29 8.2
Wakefield 18 12.5
Pontefract 7 4.4
North Derbyshire 33 9.1
South Derbyshire 64 12.2
Leicestershire 53 6.1
North Lincolnshire 31 11.7

Health Authority Qualified Occupational Therapists
Whole.time equivalent Rate per 100,000 population
South Lincolnshire 16 5.2
Bassetlaw 2 1.6
Central Nottinghamshire 29 10.3
Nottingham 80 12.9
Barnsley 15 6.6
Doncaster 15 5.2
Rotherham 34 13.4
Sheffield 73 13.7
Cambridge 48 17.7
Peterborough 20 10.1
West Suffolk 22 9.8
East Suffolk 38 11.8
Norwich 71 15.2
Great Yarmouth 14 7.3
West Norfolk and Wisbech 19 10.3
Huntingdon 7 5.2
North Bedfordshire 21 8.4
South Bedfordshire 20 7.4
North Hertfordshire 14 7.5
East Hertfordshire 14 4.8
North West Hertfordshire 30 11.3
South West Hertfordshire 15 6.2
Barnet 30 9.7
Harrow 17 8.4
Hillingdon 13 5.6
Hounslow and Spelthorne 21 7.4
Ealing 23 7.8
Brent 31 12.0
Paddington 22 18.0
Riverside 61 21.1
Basildon and Thurrock 15 5.3
Mid Essex 21 7.4
North East Essex 33 11.0
West Essex 23 8.9
Southend 21 6.6
Barking, Havering 14 3.1
Hampstead 26 23.7
Bloomsbury 54 41.2
Islington 17 9.9
City and Hackney 23 12.0
Newham 12 5.8
Tower Hamlets 18 11.8
Enfield 25 9.3
Haringey 8 4.0
Redbridge 6 2.6
Waltham Forest 7 3.2
Brighton 28 9.3
Eastbourne 18 7.9
Hastings 12 7.3
South East Kent 17 6.4
Canterbury and Thanet 16 5.3
Dartford and Gravesham 10 4.7
Maidstone 18 9.0
Medway 15 4.7
Tunbridge Wells 17 8.8
Bexley 19 8.6
Greenwich 14 6.5
Bromley 24 8.2
West Lambeth 34 21.0
Camberwell 15 6.9
Lewis and North Southwark 55 17.4
North West Surrey 20 9.7
West Surrey & North East Hants 23 8.3
South West Surrey 12 6.5
Mid Surrey 11 6.6
East Surrey 33 17.9
Chichester 23 12.6

Health Authority Qualified Occupational Therapists
Whole.time equivalent Rate per 100,000 population
Mid Downs 20 7.3
Worthing 18 7.4
Croydon 23 7.2
Kingston and Esher 16 8.9
Richmond, Twickenham 26 11.2
Wandsworth 50 26.3
Merton and Sutton 13 4.0
East Dorset 52 11.8
West Dorset 32 16.2
Portsmouth 25 4.8
South West Hampshire 55 13.1
Winchester 16 7.5
Basingstoke 21 9.7
Salisbury 22 17.6
Swindon 14 6.3
Bath 33 8.3
Isle of Wight 11 9.0
East Berkshire 18 4.9
West Berkshire 30 6.7
Aylesbury 27 18.9
Wycombe 21 7.8
Milton Keynes 12 7.7
Kettering 32 12.6
Northampton 23 7.8
Oxfordshire 96 17.7
Bristol and Weston 46 12.5
Frenchay 45 20.3
Southmead 30 12.7
Cornwall 31 70
Exeter 53 17.6
North Devon 14 10.6
Plymouth 34 10.3
Torbay 22 9.1
Cheltenham 18 8.7
Gloucester 33 10.7
Somerset 37 9.2
Bromsgrove and Redditch 16 9.8
Hereford 14 9.1
Kidderminster 10 9.5
Worcester 34 14.6
Salop 37 9.5
Mid Staffordshire 12 3.7
North Staffordshire 32 6.9
South East Staffordshire 18 7.2
Rugby 6 7.4
North Warwickshire 1 0.6
South Warwickshire 12 5.4
Central Birmingham 22 11.9
East Birmingham 10 4.8
North Birmingham 8 4.8
South Birmingham 34 13.6
West Birmingham 11 5.0
Coventry 23 7.5
Dudley 29 9.8
Sandwell 9 2.8
Solihull 12 5.7
Walsall 8 3.0
Wolverhampton 19 7.7
Chester 31 17.5
Crewe 12 4.7
Halton 12 8.3
Macclesfield 18 10.1
Warrington 8 4.4
Liverpool 35 7.1
St. Helens and Knowsley 26 7.5
Southport and Formby 11 9.0
South Sefton 22 12.1
Wirral 32 9.0

Health Authority Qualified Occupational Therapists
Whole.time equivalent Rate per 100,000 population
Lancaster 24 18.1
Blackpool, Wyre 19 6.1
Preston 32 25.8
Blackburn, Hyndburn 20 7.3
Burnley, Pendle 14 6.3
West Lancashire 17 15.7
Chorley and South Ribble 8 3.9
Bolton 23 8.6
Bury 14 8.2
North Manchester 32 22.1
Central Manchester 21 16.5
South Manchester 34 18.5
Oldham 10 4.6
Rochdale 12 5.5
Salford 41 17.1
Stockport 27 9.2
Tameside and Glossop 5 1.9
Trafford 8 3.7
Wigan 13 4.1

Source: DHSS Annual Census of NHS Non-Medical Manpower.

1 Figures independently rounded to nearest whole-time equivalent.

2 Calculated on unrounded staff in post and population estimates figures.

3 Figures include staff in post in London Post Graduate Special Health Authorities.