HC Deb 31 March 1988 vol 130 cc667-71W
Mr. Favell

To 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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