HC Deb 23 May 1988 vol 134 cc85-6W
Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how many community mental and physical handicap nurses are employed per resident in each health authority in the north-west and in Greater London.

Mr. Newton

Such information as is held centrally is in the table. The hon. Member may wish to get in touch with the RHA chairmen concerned for the remaining details.

Community psychiatric nursing at 30 September 1986
North western regional health authority by district
District health authority 1Whole-time equivalent staff in post per 100,000 population
Lancaster 9.9
Blackpool/Wyre/Fylde 5.3
Preston 12.0
Blackburn/Hyndburn/Ribble Valley 6.6
Burnley/Pendle/Rossendale
West Lancashire 7.5
Chorley and South Ribble 7.8
Bolton 4.6
Bury 7.5
North Manchester 9.0
Central Manchester 7.9
South Manchester 8.6
Oldham 2.7
Rochdale
Salford 7.9
Stockport 4.8
Tameside and Glossop 4.5
Trafford 6.9
Wigan 4.6
North western regional health authority 5.7

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

Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.

1 Calculated on unrounded whole-time equivalent staff in post and resident population numbers.

Community psychiatric nursing staff in post at 30 September 1986
District health authorities within Greater London
District health authority Whole-time equivalent per 100,000 population1
Barnet 5.3
Harrow 7.4
Hillingdon 3.4
Hounslow and Spelthorne 4.2
Ealing 9.0
Brent 3.9
Paddington and North Kensington 5.0
Riverside 9.0
Barking/Havering/Brentwood 2.8
Hampstead 18.4
Bloomsbury 7.5
Islington 4.8
City and Hackney 3.6
Newham 4.4
Tower Hamlets 1.3
Enfield 1.1
Haringey 1.0
Redbridge 1.3
Waltham Forest 1.4
Bexley 5.9

District health authority Whole-time equivalent per 100,000 population1
Greenwich 5.0
Bromley 0.3
West Lambeth 12.2
Camberwell 4.0
Lewisham and North Southwark 6.1
Croydon 4.1
Kingston and Esher 8.4
Richmond/Twickenham/Roehampton 3.9
Wandsworth 16.8
Merton and Sutton 4.2
Greater London2 5.1
1 Calculated on unrounded whole-time equivalent staff in post and resident population estimates.
2 Includes district health authorities listed above—designated as "Greater London" area.

Sources: DHSS annual Census of NHS Non-Medical Manpower. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.

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