§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many(a) consultants, (b) junior hospital doctors, (c) nurses, (d) staff in professions allied to medicine, (e) accident and emergency staff, (f) ancillary staff and (g) other staff were employed in NHS hospitals in north Yorkshire in 1992; and how many there are currently. [20881]
§ Mr. Malone[holding answer 18 March 1997]: Individual hospital units cannot be separately identified in the Department of Health's hospital and community health services work force censuses, but in some cases staff can be sub-divided between those working in hospitals and those working in the community on the basis of their area of work.
1031WIn the area covered by North Yorkshire district health authority there were 210 whole-time equivalent, wte, hospital consultants, 210 wte hospital junior doctors— excluding registrars and senior registrars—and 90 wte other hospital doctors employed by the national health service hospital and community health services (HCHS) at September 1995, of which 30 wte worked in the accident and emergency area of work; this information is not available centrally for earlier years. There were 4,010 wte nursing and midwifery staff employed by the NHS HCHS working in hospital areas of work at September 1992 in the same health authority area, of which 50 wte worked in the accident and emergency area of work; information for 1995, the latest year for which results are available, is not available centrally. It is not possible to separately identify other non-medical staff in the same way.