§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what arrangements exist for the provision of an occupational health service for employees within his532W Department, stating (a) how many staff are employed to provide occupational health services, (b) how many of those staff are qualified nurses and (c) how many employees work in his Department in total.
§ Mr. Kenneth CarlisleAll civil service departmental and agencies have access to the Civil Service Occupational Health Service, which employs some 100 fully qualified occupational health professionals. Separate to this, the Surgeon General is responsible for routine occupational health care for all civilians and the referral of casework for the industrial grades, in service establishments. The Ministry of Defence employs 116 civilian medical practitioners and 327 civilian nurses, for the occupational health care of civilian and service personnel. At 31 October 1990, the Ministry of Defence employed 302,454 service personnel, 90,048 non-industrial and 50,289 industrial civil servants.
Occupational health provision for service personnel is included as part of the full primary and secondary ca re they receive within their conditions of service.