HC Deb 11 March 2002 vol 381 cc850-3W
Tim Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many qualified radiographers (a) joined and (b) left the NHS in each of the last five years. [42288]

Mr. Hutton

Information regarding the number of radiographers joining and leaving the national health service is not collected centrally.

The number of qualified radiographers increased by 940 (eight per cent.) between 1997 and 2001 (11,770 in 1997 to 12,710 in 2001).

Tim Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many qualified NHS radiographers per head of population there are in each health authority area. [42289]

Mr. Hutton

The information requested is shown in the table.

NHS hospital and community health services (HCHS): qualified radiographers working in the scientific, therapeutic and technical area of work by health authority area in England as at 30 September 2001
whole-time equivalents Whole-time equivalents radiographers per 100,000 population headcount Headcount radiographers per headcount 100,000 population
England 10,650 21 12,710 25
Northern and Yorkshire 1,510 24 1,820 29
Bradford 110 23 140 30
County Durham and Darlington 80 13 90 15
East Riding and Hull 110 19 130 23
Gateshead and South Tyneside 70 19 80 23
Leeds 330 45 390 53
North Cumbria 60 18 80 25
Newcastle and North Tyneside 170 36 190 41
Northumberland 50 16 60 19
Sunderland 50 18 60 21
Tees 170 31 200 37
Wakefield 60 20 80 24
North Yorkshire 140 18 170 22
Calderdale and Kirklees 110 19 140 23
Trent 1,010 19 1,200 23
Barnsley 40 16 40 18
North Derbyshire 40 11 60 15
Southern Derbyshire 110 20 140 24
Doncaster 50 19 60 21
Leicestershire 180 19 220 23
Lincolnshire 130 20 160 24
North Nottinghamshire 40 10 50 13
Nottingham 180 28 210 32
Rotherham 30 14 40 16
Sheffield 170 32 190 36
South Humber 30 10 30 11
West Midlands 1,020 19 1,260 24
Birmingham 310 25 350 29
Coventry 100 32 120 39
Dudley 50 17 70 23
Herefordshire 20 14 30 17
Sandwell 30 10 40 12
Shropshire 90 21 120 28
North Staffordshire 110 23 140 29
South Staffordshire 80 13 100 16
Walsall 40 14 40 17
Warwickshire 50 10 70 13
Wolverhampton 70 29 80 33
Worcestershire 80 14 100 19
North-west 1,670 25 2,020 31
South Lancashire 20 7 20 8
Liverpool 150 33 190 43
Manchester 280 65 320 74
Morecambe Bay 70 23 100 30
St. Helen's and Knowsley 60 19 80 23
Salford and Trafford 70 15 80 17
Sefton 120 42 150 52
Stockport 40 13 50 17
West Pennine 80 17 90 19
Bury and Rochdale 60 14 60 16
North Cheshire 70 22 110 35
South Cheshire 110 16 140 21
East Lancashire 100 20 120 23
North-west Lancashire 170 36 200 43
Wigan and Bolton 120 22 150 26
Wirral 150 47 170 52
Eastern 1,030 19 1,240 23
Bedfordshire 90 16 110 20
North Essex 140 16 170 18
South Essex 110 15 130 18
Suffolk 110 16 150 22
Cambridgeshire 210 43 250 51
Norfolk 190 18 230 22
Hertfordshire 170 16 200 19

NHS hospital and community health services (HCHS): qualified radiographers working in the scientific, therapeutic and technical area of work by health authority area in England as at 30 September 2001
whole-time equivalents Whole-time equivalents radiographers per 100,000 population headcount Headcount radiographers per 100,000 population
London 1,750 24 1,920 26
Hillingdon 40 16 40 17
Kensington, Chelsea and Wesminster 210 51 230 55
Redbridge and Waltham Forest 40 9 40 9
Croydon 30 9 40 11
Kingston and Richmond 50 13 60 16
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 250 32 260 35
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 140 22 160 25
Barking and Havering 90 23 100 25
Brent and Harrow 90 19 100 21
Camden and Islington 280 73 300 78
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 140 20 150 22
East London and the City 180 28 180 29
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey 110 13 130 15
Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich 110 15 130 17
South-east 1,530 17 1,880 21
Berkshire 130 15 160 19
Buckinghamshire 100 14 130 18
East Kent 100 16 110 19
West Kent 180 18 220 22
East Surrey 40 9 50 11
West Surrey 160 25 200 31
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 150 19 170 22
West Sussex 90 12 110 15
Northamptonshire 100 17 130 21
Oxfordshire 160 26 200 31
North and Mid Hampshire 60 11 80 14
Southampton and South West Hampshire 140 25 170 30
Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and South-east Hampshire 120 18 160 23
South-west 1,130 23 1,370 27
Somerset 70 14 90 18
South and West Devon 150 24 180 30
Wiltshire 100 17 130 21
Avon 320 32 380 37
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 100 20 120 23
Dorset 170 25 210 29
North and East Devon 90 19 110 23
Gloucestershire 130 22 150 27

Notes:

1. Figures are combined totals for qualified therapeutic and diagnostic radiographers

2. Staff in post figures are round to the nearest 10

3. Radiographers per 100,000 population are rounded to the nearest whole number

4. Due to rounding totals may not equal the sum of component parts

5. The former Solihull HA population figure is included in the Birmingham HA total

6. Population figures are 1998 based population projections for England for 2001 by HA

Source:

Department of Heath Non-Medical Workforce Census.

Office for National Statistics