HC Deb 03 November 1994 vol 248 cc1272-3W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 9 May,Official Report, columns 1–2, if she will update the table on vacant hospital consultant posts.

Mr. Malone

The information is shown in the table.

Because these are consultant vacancies notified to the Department as at 30 September of each year, they may not fairly reflect the trend for the number of vacancies over the year as a whole.

Vacant hospital consultant posts by specialty group England—30 September 1989–1993
Specialty Group 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993
General Medicine Group 119.7 129.2 92.7 118.1 103.5
Accident and Emergency 15.0 18.4 14.4 19.6 15.3
Surgical Group 88.2 135.3 87.1 90.0 95.7
Obstetrics and Gynaecology 17.9 23.4 18.0 23.0 21.8
Anaesthetics 70.3 87.9 50.3 88.0 80.6
Radiology Group 34.6 33.9 18.8 21.9 18.4
Clinical Oncology (formerly Radiotherapy) 4.2 7.2 6.0 5.0 2.0
Pathology Group 39.0 49.9 36.6 23.4 20.7
Psychiatry Group 193.4 217.3 150.1 152.7 126.9
Dental Specialties 10.0 10.5 12.3 9.0 5.7
All Specialties 592.3 713.0 486.4 550.7 490.6

Note:

The table shows whole time equivalent.