§ Mr. RogersTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the number of consultant posts currently vacant in Wales by(a) specialty and (b) health authority. [93144]
§ Mr. Paul Murphy[holding answer 26 July 1999]: This is now a matter for the National Assembly for Wales. However, as the information is collected annually in September, the most recent figures relate to a time when the matter was the responsibility of the Secretary of State. The information is collected by speciality and by trust rather than by health authority and is contained in the following table as at 30 September 1998.
Trust/speciality Number Wte1 Carmarthen and District Radiology 1 1.0 Dermatology 1 0.7 Glan Clwyd Hospital Traumatic and orthopaedic surgery 1 1.0 Glan Hafren Anaesthetics 1 1.0 Glan-y-Mor Child and adolescent psychiatry 1 1.0 General medicine 1 1.0 Gwynedd Community Mental illness 1 1.0 Forensic psychiatry 1 1.0 Gwynedd Hospitals Urology 1 1.0 Cardiology 1 1.0 Anaesthetics 1 1.0 North Glamorgan Anaesthetics 1 1.0 Pembrokeshire and Derwen Urology 1 1.0 Palliative medicine 1 1.0 Accident and emergency 1 1.0 Child and adolescent psychiatry 2 2.0 Mental illness 2 2.0 Old age psychiatry 1 1.0 Rhondda Old age psychiatry 1 0.5 Velindre Palliative medicine 1 0.7 Clinical oncology 1 1.0 Total 23 22.0 Health authority area Bro Taf 4 3.3 Dyfed Powys 10 9.7 Gwent 1 1.0 Morgannwg 2 2.0 North Wales 6 6.0 Total 23 22.0 1 Whole time equivalent