§ Mr. DunnachieTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many(a) registered mentally ill and (b) mentally handicapped patients there were in the Greater Glasgow health board area in 1979, and in each year until 1987; and how many staff were employed with groups in the mentally ill sector and in the mentally handicapped sector in 1979 and in each year until 1983.
§ Mr. Michael Forsyth[holding answer 3 May 1988]: Information is not available centrally in the precise form requested. The following tables show the relevant available statistics.
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1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 11987 All nursing staff4 656 694 742 723 728 677 696 680 775 qualified nurses 268 281 304 302 314 337 331 322 328 in-training nurses 130 136 150 160 178 126 115 113 119 unqualified nurses 259 277 289 262 236 214 249 245 329 1 Provisional data. Information on patients at 31 December 1987 is not yet available. 2 Mental illness figures include patients in psychogeriatric facilities and the staff caring for them. 3 For doctors, mental illness includes the specialties: mental illness, child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy. It excludes forensic psychiatry. Doctors are classified by the specialty as per the contract of employment. A number of doctors classified under mental illness will have responsibility for mental handicap patients. 4 Includes senior administrative nurses but does not take account of such nurses with more than one functional (specialty) responsibility. Some nurses working in the community psychiatric role may be included in the data but these nurses are not separately identified centrally. The individual nurse lines may not sum to the total because of rounding of the figures.