§ Mr. WigleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the health regions of England which currently have paediatric pathologists in post; and if she will make a statement.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThis information is not held centrally. Information on doctors' specialties is held with varying degrees of disaggregation in the Department of Health's medical manpower census. Doctors with responsibilities in paediatric pathology are often recorded either as paediatricians or pathologists and the regional count of paediatric pathologists is therefore incomplete. A recent ad hoc inquiry relating to perinatal pathology found that every region had at least one perinatal or paediatric pathologist in post.