§ Mr. Nicholas BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many(a) general practitioners, (b) consultants and (c) other hospital doctors have retired in each year for the last 10 years; and how many of these have (i) taken early retirement, (ii) retired before 60 and (iii) retired before 55. [15773]
§ Mr. SackvilleResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the National Health Service Pensions Agency under its chief executive, A. F. Cowan. I have asked him to reply to the hon. Member.
Letter from A. F. Cowan to Mr. Nicholas Brown, dated 29 March 1995:
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question as it falls within my area of responsibility.A breakdown of the figures in the format requested is not available. We are however able to provide the following information.Figures in respect of General and Medical Practitioners quinquennially:officer, (b) senior house officer, (c) registrar, (d) senior registrar and (e) consultant posts remained vacant as at 1 April on each of the last 10 years for each regional health authority. [15772]
§ Mr. MaloneData as at 1 April are not available. Information on vacancies for consultants, senior registrars, registrars and senior house officers is collected from the national health service each year, and is available in the Library in Crown copyright table R5 of the Department's census of the medical and dental work force. As these relate to a single date they may not fairly reflect the trend for the number of vacancies in the stated grades over the year as a whole.