§ Caroline FlintTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of hospital consultants in(a) Doncaster (b) Yorkshire and (c) England do not undertake private work. [89115]
§ Mr. HuttonWe do not collect information centrally about the proportion of consultants undertaking private practice. However, the Department collects statistics about the contractual status of consultants. While these statistics do not represent an accurate indication of the number of consultants undertaking private practice, they can give a broad indication of the amount of private practice undertaken in a region.
Maximum part-time contract holders are those practitioners that have opted for maximum part-time contracts, or who have been required to change their status to maximum part-time because the volume of private practice undertaken exceeds the limit of 10 per cent. that applies to other whole-time contract holders. Maximum part-time contract holders have no limit on the amount of private practice they are permitted to undertake.
Nationally 23.7 per cent. of all consultants hold maximum part-time contracts. The proportion of consultants on maximum part-time contracts in Yorkshire, at 19.4 per cent., is lower than the national average and in Doncaster the figure is considerably 121W lower at 6.3 per cent, of all consultants. The table shows numbers of medical and dental consultants working maximum part-time contracts.
Hospital, Public Health Medicine and Community Health Services (HCHS): Medical and dental consultants working maximum part time contracts England at 31 March 2002 All Contracts numbers (headcount) of which Maximum Part-Time England of which 26,350 6,240 Yorkshire1 of which 2,570 500 Doncaster 160 10 Notes:
Figures are rounded to the nearest ten
1Statistics for "Yorkshire" are based on the mean figures for North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire Strategic health Authority (excluding Northern Lincolnshire), South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority and West Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority.
Source:
Department of Health medical and dental workforce census.
§ Mr. ViggersTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the answer of 12 December 2002,Official Report, column 494W, on consultants, if he will list the specialities in which offers of appointment have been made under the NHS International Fellowship Scheme. [90312]
§ Mr. HuttonWe piloted the International Fellowship Scheme with an initial recruitment round in spring and summer 2002.
As a result of the pilot, 39 offers of appointment have been made and accepted, although subsequently two have been deferred due to personal reasons. A further six candidates have potential offers under negotiation. 17 candidates have been invited for interviews in the new year. Of the 37 offers of employment, two are in cardiothoracic surgery, seven in histopathology, 26 in psychiatry and two in radiology.