§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list, for each regional health authority, how many doctors have been trained each year for the last five years in forensic psychiatry; and how many qualified in forensic psychiatry are practising by region in the national health service.
§ Mr. MaloneThe tables show the numbers of registrars, senior registrars and consultants in forensic psychiatry.
Table 1: Forensic psychiatry: numbers as at 30 September each year: senior registrars and registrars 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 England 31 28 46 40 40 Total for all regions listed below: 32 28 46 40 40 Northern 1 1 — 3 1 Yorkshire 2 — 1 2 2 Trent 1 — 1 1 — East Anglia 1 — 2 2 2
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1993 1994 Transplant Heart Heart/Lung Lung Heart Heart/Lung Lung Freeman Hospital 35 3 29 46 4 20 Northern General Hospital 22 — 1 22 — 2 Papworth Hospital 44 16 20 49 21 20 Harefield Hospital 70 9 30 83 14 51 Great Ormond Street Hospital 9 5 — 12 5 —
Table 1:Forensic psychiatry: numbers as at 30 September each year: senior registrars and registrars 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 North West Thames 1 — 2 3 4 North East Thames 1 — — 2 3 South East Thames 1 2 2 3 2 South West Thames 2 2 3 1 — Wessex 1 2 3 1 2 Oxford — — 1 1 1 South Western 2 2 3 2 3 West Midlands 6 7 13 5 2 Mersey — — — — — North Western 2 2 3 4 2 SHAs 4 2 2 3 3 Special hospitals 7 8 10 7 13 Notes:
Some staff are counted in more than one region. Hence the total for all regions may exceed the corresponding figure for England. There were slight undercounts in the censuses for 1990 and 1991. It is not known whether these affected the data for forensic psychiatry.
Forensic psychiatry: numbers as at 30 September each year: consultants 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 England 75 71 68 80 82 Total for all regions listed below: 77 74 71 83 85 Northern 2 2 2 2 1 Yorkshire 5 3 3 5 5 Trent 4 3 3 4 4 East Anglia 3 3 3 2 3 North West Thames 3 3 3 4 1 North East Thames 4 2 2 3 3 South East Thames 7 6 6 4 3 South West Thames 2 2 2 1 2 Wessex 2 2 2 1 2 Oxford 1 1 1 1 2 South Western 3 3 4 4 4 West Midlands 4 5 5 6 6 Mersey 3 5 3 4 3 North Western 4 4 5 5 5 SHAs 5 5 5 4 5 Special hospitals 25 25 22 33 36 Notes:
Some staff are counted in more than one region. Hence the total for all regions may exceed the corresponding figure for England.
There were slight undercounts in the censuses for 1990 and 1991. It is not known whether these affected the data for forensic psychiatry.