HC Deb 17 December 2002 vol 396 c792W
Mr. Paul Marsden

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many doctors per 100,000 people were in training in each year since 1997 for(a) child and adolescent psychiatry, (b) forensic psychiatry, (c) general psychiatry, (d) old age psychiatry, (e) psychotherapy and (f) psychiatry of learning disability. [85638]

Mr. Hutton

The table shows the number of doctors in training within the psychiatry specialties from 1997 to 2001 and a per population figure for 2001 only. Population figures are due to be updated shortly following publication of results from the 2001 population census. This will include a revised set of estimates for the years 1997 to 2000, but these figures are not yet available.

was introduced. Data from the new surveillance system are available for every acute national health service hospital trust and the first year's results were published in the Communicable Disease Report Weekly on 20 June 2002 and are on the Public Health Laboratory Service website at www.phls.co.uk/publications/cdr/PDFfiles/2002/cdr2502.pdf. Information on the composition of infection control teams is not collected routinely.

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