§ Mr. Michael MorrisTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether he has any proposals to standardise outcome assessment in national health service trust hospitals;
(2) whether he has any proposals to standardise outcome assessments in district health authority-managed hospitals.
Hospital consultants in obstetrics and gynaecology showing numbers and whole time equivalents as at 30 September each year Year 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 No. Wte. No. Wte. No. Wte. No. Wte. No. Wte. No. Wte. England 753 697.4 747 693.0 743 687.0 729 674.1 721 663.3 703 649. Northern 63 58.5 63 56.1 64 57.8 64 58.8 60 55.4 60 55.5 Yorkshire 59 55.5 57 53.8 63 54.5 60 52.3 56 48.3 53 48.2 Trent 70 60.3 67 58.6 66 57.5 65 57.1 65 56.6 64 55.2 East Anglia 31 29.9 31 30.1 31 29.5 32 30.9 32 30.9 31 29.9 North West Thames 60 50.6 58 51.5 58 50.5 59 49.2 63 51.3 61 49.3 North East Thames 79 67.1 79 63.2 78 67.8 76 65.8 79 66.3 81 67.5 South East Thames 55 50.2 60 53.8 57 50.9 58 51.6 59 51.6 56 49.3 South West Thames 42 38.7 42 37.4 43 37.9 44 37.0 42 37.0 44 38.6 Wessex 42 37.2 40 36.8 40 37.7 37 34.5 38 35.3 37 33.6 Oxford 38 34.9 36 33.8 35 32.8 35 31.9 33 30.8 30 28.4 South Western 45 39.7 45 39.8 46 38.0 45 39.2 41 35.7 40 34.4 West Midlands 74 71.9 76 73.9 71 68.6 68 65.9 67 64.9 62 60.6 Mersey 38 34.0 39 34.1 35 31.7 35 31.2 35 31.2 36 32.2 North Western 65 62.2 66 63.7 67 63.3 65 61.2 65 61.2 64 60.4 SHAs 16 6.9 15 6.3 18 8.5 17 7.3 17 6.8 15 7.0 Source: Medical and Dental Census.
(1) Includes permanent paid and honorary staff.
(2) From 1987 Senior hospital Medical Officers (with allowance) are excluded. These are included with Other Staff.
(3) Staff holding two or more appointments with the same of different regions are counted only once. Differences in the sum of numbers of staff for all regions is due to the duplication of staff holding appointments in more than one region. Such staff are included separately in each region. This duplication does not occur in the WTE component.