§ Mr. FavellTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in respect of each district health authority(a) the total number of full-time equivalent employees and (b) the total number of full-time equivalent management employees above the level of department head or ward sister.
§ Mr. Newton[holding answer 4 February 1988]: Such information as is available centrally is shown in the tables. Information on management employees in the form requested is not held centrally.
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NHS directly employed staff1 2 in post 30 September 1986 Region Whole-time equivalent31986 Northern 53,510 Yorkshire 59,570 Trent 74,310 East Anglia 30.490 North West Thames 54,810 North East Thames 69,060 South East Thames 61,860
Region Whole-time equivalent3 1986 South West Thames 45,660 Wessex 43,520 Oxford 33,210 South Western 52,370 West Midlands 84,230 Mersey 42,870 North Western 74,080 England4 801,590 Source: DHSS(SR7) Annual censuses of NHS medical and non-medical manpower. 1 Includes permanent paid, ho norary and locum medical and dental staff. 2 Includes agency nursing and midwifery staff. 3 Figures are independently rounded to the nearest ten(10) whole-time equivalents. 4 Includes staff in London Post Graduate Special Health Authorities, Dental Estimates Board, Prescription Pricing Authority, London Ambulance Services Staff, and Family Practitioner Committees' directly employed staff. 669W
NHS directly employed staff 1 2 3 in post 30 September 1986 4Whole-time equivalents Northern RHA Total 53,510 Hartlepool 1,570 North Tees 2,490 South Tees 5,020 East Cumbria 2,980 South Cumbria 2,060 West Cumbria 2,050 Darlington 2,270 Durham 2,440 North West Durham 1,370 South West Durham 2,690 Northumberland 5,190 Gateshead 2,680 Newcastle (T) 9,600 North Tyneside 1,840 South Tyneside 1,770 Sunderland 5,000 Yorkshire RHA Total 59,570 Hull 5,180 East Yorkshire 2,960 Grimsby 2,460 Scunthorpe 2,040 Northallerton 970 York 4,370 Scarborough 1,660 Harrogate 2,190 Bradford 5,090 Airedale 2,500 Calderdale 2,600 Huddersfield 3,650 Dewsbury 1,910 Leeds Western (T) 6,940 Leeds Eastern (T) 6,430 Wakefield 3,770 Pontefract 1,940 Trent RHA Total 74,310 North Derbyshire 3,750 Southern Derbyshire 7,510 Leicestershire (T) 12,460 North Lincolnshire 4,620 South Lincolnshire 3,600 Bassetlaw 1,210 Central Nottinghamshire 4,200 670W
4Whole-time equivalents Nottingham (T) 11,200 Barnsley 2,900 Doncaster 4,060 Rotherham 3,200 Sheffield (T) 12,740 East Anglia RHA Total 30,490 Cambridge (T) 5,140 Peterborough 3,050 West Suffolk 2,860 East Suffolk 5,050 Norwich 7,140 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 2,580 West Norfolk and Wisbech 2,160 Huntingdon 1,370 North West Thames RHA Total 54,810 North Bedfordshire 2,780 South Bedfordshire 3,360 North Hertfordshire 1,950 East Hertfordshire 1,840 North West Hertfordshire 5,440 South West Hertfordshire 2,200 Barnet 5,250 Harrow 2,660 Hillingdon 3,900 Hounslow and Spelthorne 3,550 Ealing 2,930 Brent 4,020 Paddington and North Kensington (T) 4,040 Riverside (T) 8,760 North East Thames RHA Total 69,060 Basildon and Thurrock 4,110 Mid Essex 3,920 North East Essex 5,130 West Essex 2,910 Southend 3,760 Barking Havering and Brentwood 5,820 Hampstead (T) 4,640 Bloomsbury (T) 7,850 Islington 3,200 City and Hackney (T) 5,760 Newhara 2,260 Tower Hamlets (T) 5,050 Enfield 2,730 Haringey 2,790 Redbridge 2,710 Waltham Forest 4,560 South East Thames RHA Total 61,860 Brighton 4,680 Eastbourne 3,330 Hastings 2,400 South East Kent 2,970 Canterbury and Thanet 4,570 Dartford and Gravesham 3,780 Maidstone 2,690 Medway 3,650 Tunbridge Wells 3,640 Bexley 2,800 Greenwich 4,070 Bromley 3,820 West Lambeth (T) 5,440 Camberwell (T) 4,530 Lewisham and North Southwark (T) 7,730 South West Thames RHA Total 45,660 North West Surrey 2,960 West Surrey and North East Hampshire 3,020 South West Surrey 2,450 671W
4Whole-time equivalents Mid Surrey 3,100 East Surrey 3,540 Chichester 2,420 Mid Downs 3,140 Worthing 2,830 Croydon 4,390 Kingston and Esher 2,920 Richmond Twickenham and Roehampton 2,440 Wandsworth (T) 5,740 Merton and Sutton 4,940 Wessex RHA Total 43,520 East Dorset 5,570 West Dorset 3,190 Portsmouth and SE Hampshire 6,520 Southampton and SW Hampshire (T) 7,970 Winchester 2,820 Basingstoke and N Hampshire 3,080 Salisbury 2,490 Swindon 3,300 Bath 5,430 Isle of Wight 1,900 Oxford RHA Total 33,210 East Berkshire 4,040 West Berkshire 5,650 Aylesbury Vale 3,080 Wycombe 2,310 Milton Keynes 1,360 Kettering 2,650 Northampton 4,400 Oxfordshire (T) 8,180 South Western RHA Total 52,370 Bristol and Weston (T) 7,170 Frenchay 4,680 Southmead 3,870 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 5,380 Exeter 6,370 North Devon 1,820 Plymouth 5,480 Torbay 3,130 Cheltenham and District 2,380 Gloucester 4,640 Somerset 5,790 West Midlands RHA Total 84,230 Bromsgrove and Redditch 2,150 Herefordshire 2,100 Kidderminster and District 2,200 Worcester and District 3,590 Shropshire 5,310 Mid Staffordshire 3,530 North Staffordshire 7,430 South East Staffordshire 3,330 Rugby 840 North Warwickshire 2,400 South Warwickshire 3,540 Central Birmingham (T) 6,100 East Birmingham 2,700 North Birmingham 2,630 South Birmingham 4,980 West Birmingham 4,950 Coventry 5,000 Dudley 4,120 Sandwell 2,960 Solihull 2,140 Walsall 3,450 Wolverhampton 4,320
4Whole-time equivalents Mersey RHA Total 42,870 Chester 3,570 Crewe 3,070 Halton 1,100 Macclesfield 2,700 Warrington 3,920 Liverpool (T) 10,430 St. Helens and Knowsley 4,690 Southport and Formby 2,080 South Sefton 4,130 Wirral 5,030 North Western RHA Total 74,080 Lancaster 3,800 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 4,290 Preston 5,390 Blackburn. Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 4,900 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 4,420 West Lancashire 1,780 Chorley and South Ribble 1,060 Bolton 3,410 Bury 1,830 North Manchester 4,680 Central Manchester (T) 4,610 South Manchester (T) 6,540 Oldham 2,790 Rochdale 2,190 Salford (T) 6,340 Stockport 3,750 Tameside and Glossop 2,500 Trafford 2,350 Wigan 3,810 Source: DHSS annual census of National Health Service medical and non-medical manpower.
Notes to all regional tables:
1. Includes permanent paid, honorary and locum medical and dental staff. Excludes consultants in non-teaching district health authorities and senior registrars in all district health authorities — these staff have their contracts with regional health authorities.
2. Includes agency nursing and midwifery staff.
3. Regional totals including regional headquarters and headquarters units staff, and staff whose contracts are held by regional health authorities.
4. Figures are independently rounded to nearest ten (10) whole-time equivalents.
(T)—Denotes teaching authority.