Employment Medical Advisory Service (Hansard, 23 March 1995)

§ Mr. Oppenheim

The following tables show the numbers of doctors working by region in the Health and Safety Executive's employment medical advisory service on 1 April for each year since 1979.

In 1979 EMAS was organised in the following regions:

	Number
Eastern and Midlands	7.0
London and South East	13.5
Northern	5.5
North East	8.5
North West	13.0
Scotland	9.0
South West	6.5
Wales	3.5
West Midlands	9.5

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From 1980 to 1984 EMAS was organised as follows:
Year	Eastern and SE Midlands	London South and SE	London North	Northern	North East	North West	Scotland	South West	Wales	West Midlands
1980	6	7	5	6	6.5	13	8	6	4.5	9.5
1981	6	6.5	5	6	7.5	13	8.5	8.5	5.5	8.5
1982	6	6.5	4	5	6.5	10	8	6	4.5	7.5
1983	6	5	4.5	4.5	6.5	10	7.5	6	5.5	8.5
1984	5	6	4.5	5.5	5	10	7.5	6	4.5	8.5

From 1985 to date EMAS has been organised in areas which make up the following regions:

Year	Home Countries	London and South East	Midlands	North West	Scotland	Wales and South West	Yorkshire and North East
1985	5	10	12	10	7.5	8.5	9
1986	4.5	10	10.5	8	7.5	10	9.5
1987	5.5	6.5	10.5	9	7.5	9.5	7
1988	5	4.5	10	7	5.5	8.5	6
1989	6	4.5	8	7	6	7	6.5
1990	6.5	4	9	5	6	7	8.5
1991	7.5	4.5	9.5	6	6	6	7.5
1992	7	7.5	10	7.5	6.5	5	8.5
1993	7.5	6.5	9.5	7.5	6.5	7	8.5
1994	6.5	5	6.5	8	5.5	5	8.5

Note:

From 1993 the figures do not include the director or deputy director of medical services who were based in headquarters.

A prior options study of EMAS activities to consider whether they could be undertaken by alternative means is currently in progress.

Year	Home Countries	London and South East	Midlands	North West	Scotland	Wales and South West	Yorkshire and North East
1995	6.5	4	4	5	3.5	3	6
1996	6.5	4	4	5	3.5	2	6