§ Mr. SoamesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list by region his Department's establishment for biomedical scientists. [107608]
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§ Mr. DenhamThe Department does not employ Biomedical Scientists working in the National Health Service. Their contracts are held by individual NHS trusts, special health authorities and other statutory authorities.
The available information is shown in the table. Biomedical scientists are included in the table but cannot be separately identified.
NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): all pathology scientists by region, in England as at 30 September 1998 Whole-time equivalent Numbers (headcount) Northern and Yorkshire 190 200 Trent 110 120 Anglia and Oxford 90 100 North Thames 260 280 South Thames 170 180 South West 130 140 West Midlands 110 110 North and West 200 220 Other 240 250 England Total 1,510 1,600 Notes:
1. "Other" includes staff employed by SHAs, OSAs and other centrally based services.
2. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
3. Due to rounding totals may not equal the sum of component parts.
4. "Pathology scientists" includes Immunologists, Clinical Cytogenetics, Chemical Pathologists, Haematologist etc.
5. Biomedical scientists are included in the totals but cannot be identified separately.
Source:
Department of Health Non-Medical Workforce Census.