§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what is the annual average salary of a qualified medical secretary;
(2) if he will give, for each regional health authority, district health authority and special health authority (a) the number of funded establishments for qualified medical secretaries and (b) the number of qualified medical secretaries in post;
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§ Mr. Newton[holding answers 6 May 1988 and 9 May 1988]Medical secretaries are employed in the NHS on various grades with basic pay scales ranging from £4,733 to £8,990 per annum for an adult according to their individual responsibilities. In addition, allowances up to £635 per annum may be payable for tested proficiency in typing, shorthand and audio skills. London weighting allowances of £1,201 per annum within the inner zone and £718 per annum in the outer zone are also payable as appropriate.
Payroll information identifying medical secretaries is not centrally available for all parts of the NHS. Based on information from eight regions and six special health authorities in the period April to December 1987, the average gross salary was estimated to be £6,620 per annum inclusive of proficiency allowances but excluding London weighting. There is no central classification or payroll identification of a trained or qualified medical secretary.
The table shows the number of medical secretaries in post in each regional, district and post-graduate special health authority at September 1986. Figures for funded establishments are not held centrally.
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National Health Service Medical Secretaries at September 1986 Regional Health Authority and District Health Authority Whole-time equivalent1 Northern 0 Hartlepool 13 North Tees 41 South Tees 75 East Cumbria 45 South Cumbria 31 West Cumbria 25 Darlington 30 Durham 35 North West Durham 5 South West Durham 22 Northumberland 42 Gateshead 36 Newcastle-upon-Tyne (T) 126 North Tyneside 32 South Tyneside 27 Sunderland 12 RHA Total 596 Yorkshire 0 Hull 33 East Yorkshire 28 Grimsby 38 Scunthorpe 45 Northallerton 13 York 35 Scarborough 21 Harrogate 25 Bradford 68 Airedale 38 Calderdale 26 Huddersfield 30 Dewsbury 31 Leeds Western (T) 87 Leeds Eastern (T) 91 Wakefield 44 Pontefract 25 RHA Total 678 Trent North Derbyshire 35 South Derbyshire 59 Leicestershire (T) 108 301W
Regional Health Authority and District Health Authority amd district Health Authority Whole-time equivalent1 North Lincolnshire 68 South Lincolnshire 58 Bassetlaw 16 Central Nottinghamshire 44 Nottingham (T) 174 Barnsley 31 Doncaster 62 Rotherham 40 Sheffield (T) 148 RHA Total 841 East Anglian Cambridge (T) 59 Peterborough 46 West Suffolk 31 East Suffolk 62 Norwich 84 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 38 West Norfolk and 36 Wisbech Huntingdon 20 RHA Total 377 North West Thames North Bedfordshire 38 South Bedfordshire 37 North Hertfordshire 25 East Hertfordshire 17 North West Hertfordshire 36 South West Hertfordshire 30 Barnet 48 Harrow 33 Hillingdon 65 Hounslow & Spelthorne 46 Ealing 31 Brent 30 Paddington & North 26 Kensington (T) Riverside 116 RHA Total 576 North East Thames Basildon & Thurrock 31 Mid Essex 30 North East Essex 63 West Essex 1 Southend 37 Barking/Havering/Brent-wood 76 Hampstead (T) 49 Bloomsbury (T) 94 Islington 31 City & Hackney (T) 58 Newham 20 Tower Hamlets (T) 83 Enfield 30 Haringey 41 Redbridge 25 Waltham Forest 39 RHA Total 708 South East Thames 0 Brighton 40 Eastbourne 21 Hastings 14 South East Kent 46 Canterbury and Thanet 68 Dartford and Gravesham 40 Maidstone 25 Medway 52 Tunbridge Wells 56 302W
Regional Health Authority and District Health Authority and District Health Authority Whole-lime equivalent1 Bexley 2 Greenwich 27 Bromley 60 West Lambeth (T) 46 Camberwell (T) 40 Lewisham and North 71 Southwark (T) RHA Total 607 South West Thames 0 North West Surrey 43 West Surrey and North 36 East Hants South West Surrey 30 Mid-Surrey 32 East Surrey 32 Chichester 30 Mid-downs 49 Worthing 41 Croydon 38 Kingston and Esher 32 Richmond, Twickenham 33 and Roehampton Wandsworth (T) 98 Merton and Sutton 55 RHA Total 549 Wessex 0 East Dorset 54 West Dorset 10 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 7 Southampton and South West Hampshire (T) 61 Winchester 29 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 10 Salisbury 36 Swindon 50 Bath 33 Isle of Wight 25 RHA Total 313 Oxford 1 East Berkshire 38 West Berkshire 41 Aylesbury Vale 34 Wycombe 38 Milton Keynes 27 Kettering 51 Northampton 66 Oxfordshire (T) 109 RHA Total 405 South Western 0 Bristol and Weston (T) 88 Frenchay 10 Southmead 33 Cornwall and Isles of 69 Scilly Exeter 50 North Devon 26 Plymouth 83 Torbay 33 Cheltenham 43 Gloucester 44 Somerset 89 RHA Total 567 West Midlands 0 Bromsgrove and Redditch 31
Regional Health Authority and District Health Authority and District Health Authority Whole-time equivalent1 Herefordshire 33 Kidderminster and 21 District Worcester and District 27 Shropshire 48 Mid-Staffordshire 37 North Staffordshire 99 South East Staffordshire 15 Rugby 17 North Warwickshire 24 South Warwickshire 40 Central Birmingham (T) 147 East Birmingham 64 North Birmingham 29 South Birmingham 75 West Birmingham 64 Coventry 70 Dudley 74 Sandwell 49 Solihull 30 Walsall 21 Wolverhampton 41 RHA Total 1,055 Mersey 0 Chester 32 Crewe 34 Halton 16 Macclesfield 29 Warrington 27 Liverpool (T) 151 St. Helens with Knowsley 38 Sefton North 16 Sefton South 41 Wirral 56 RHA Total 439 North Western 0 Lancaster 28 Blackpool Wyre and 51 Fylde Preston 47 Blackburn, Hyndburn and 44 Ribble Valley Burnley, Pendle 49 Rossendale West Lancashire 17 Chorley and South Ribble 23 Bolton 11 Bury 32 North Manchester 75 Central Manchester (T) 67 South Manchester (T) 52 Oldham 39 Rochdale 46 Salford (T) 80 Stockport 41 Tameside and Glossop 43 Trafford 36 Wigan 44 RHA Total 826 303W
London Postgraduate Special Health Authorities Authority Whole-time equivalent1 Hospitals for sick children 33 National hospital for nervous diseases 15 Moorfields eye hospital 23 Bethlem Royal and Maudsley hospitals 49 National heart and chest hospitals 54 The Royal Marsden hospital 36
Authority Whole-time equivalent1 Hammersmith hospital and Queen Charlotte's hospital 51 The Eastman dental hospital 5 Total 264 England total for all authorities 8,801 Source: DHSS(SR7) Annual Census of NHS Non-Medical Manpower.
1 All figures are independently rounded to the nearest whole time equivalent.