§ Mrs. Jane KennedyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 29 November 1993,Official Report, column 307, about general practitioner surgery in Liverpool, South Sefton, Knowsley and St. Helens and Wirral health authorities, what is (a) the largest list and (b) the smallest list size of general practitioner practices in the health authorities.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe information is shown in the tables.
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FHSA Practice with smallest list size Number of general practitioners in practice Liverpool 1,131 1 St. Helens and Knowsley 504 1 Sefton 1,262 1 Wirral 1,060 1
FHSA Practice with largest list size Number of general practitioners in practice Liverpool 13,158 6 St. Helens and Knowsley 14,161 6 Sefton 16,047 7 Wirral 15,464 8 The data relate to 1 April 1993.
All data relate to partnerships. Some partnerships may practice from more than one surgery.
Partnerships may include one or more general practitioners who are restricted principals. A restricted principal is a GP who either (a) provides the full range of general medical services but whose list is limited to the staff of one or more hospitals or institutions in which he is employed or to patients resident in one or more schools or institutions; or (b) provides maternity medical services and/or contraceptive services only.
§ Mr. WareingTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what plans she has to increase the budgets of those hospital trusts whose chief executives are to receive a salary increase; and if she will make a statement; (2) when she was first informed of recent increases in salaries for the chief executives of various hospital trusts; what her response was; what plans she has to take action to countermand these increases; and if she will make a statement.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe salaries of chief executives and other directors of trusts are matters for the chairmen and non-executive directors. The budgets of national health service hospital trusts are established on the basis of contracts for services between them and national health service purchasing authorities.
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State wrote to all chairmen on 12 November 1992 requiring settlements for 1993–94 to conform with the public sector pay restraint limits of 0-1.5 per cent.