Paediatric Consultants

HC Deb 01 February 1994 vol 236 cc596-7W

Ms Primarolo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many paediatric consultants there were in England in each of the last five years.

Dr. Mawhinney

The available information is shown in the table.

Hospital paediatric consultants in England as at 30 September each year, in whole-time equivalents
	Paediatrics	Paediatric neurology	Paediatric surgery	Child and adolescent psychiatry	Total
1988	597.2	11.8	34.2	316.9	960.1
1989	678.8	11.2	39.5	310.3	1,039.8
1990	699.1	9.7	36.3	333.3	1,078.4
1991	723.0	14.7	47.3	325.9	1,110.9
1992	768.6	13.5	44.4	304.4	1,130.9

Notes: Information is taken from the Hospital Medical and Dental Census for each year. Information about the number of consultants in the community is not available by specialty.