Mental Health Services

HC Deb 01 April 2004 vol 419 cc1668-9W

Mrs. Helen Clark

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of(a) psychiatrists, (b) nurses and (c) other staff groups working in mental health services are from an ethnic minority group in each strategic health authority area of England. [163561]

Mr. Hutton

The information is shown in the table.

NHS hospital and community health services: Total ethnic minority groups1 of doctors in the psychiatry group, qualified nursing and qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical staff within the specified areas by Strategic Health Authority area in England as at 30 September 2003
Percentage
			Qualified nursing staff
	All doctors in the psychiatry group	Consultants	All qualified nurses in mental health	Community psychiatry
Q15 Cheshire and Merseyside SHA	39.1	21.0	5.2	4.0
Q16 Thames Valley SHA	32.3	17.0	21.6	14.4
Q17 Hampshire and Isle of Wight SHA	23.1	10.0	7.6	5.4
Q18 Kent and Medway SHA	55.1	34.7	21.0	16.3
Q19 Surrey and Sussex SHA	43.0	34.6	31.1	17.2
Q20 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire SHA	18.3	8.0	7.9	5.8
Q21 South West Peninsula SHA	13.9	4.9	1.0	0.7
Q22 Dorset and Somerset SHA	17.4	12.5	6.2	1.8
Q23 South Yorkshire SHA	43.8	30.8	4.9	3.3
Q24 Trent SHA	36.7	20.0	7.5	8.8
Q25 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland SHA	49.6	36.6	15.7	16.3
Q26 Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA	45.9	20.0	2.9	1.6
Q27 Birmingham and The Black County SHA	60.7	45.5	23.0	16.0
Q28 West Midlands South SHA	48.7	32.5	10.3	5.3

	Qualified nursing staff	Qualified STT
	Other psychiatry	Community learning disabilities	Other learning disabilities	Clinical psychology staff	Psychotherapy staff
England	22.0	9.6	14.5	7.4	8.1
Q01 Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire SNA	9.7	6.9	6.1	3.3	0.0
Q02 Bedforsdshire and Hertfordshire SHA	54.0	36.2	13.9	8.9	7.1
Q03 Essex SHA	30.0	11.1	27.0	10.0	7.7
Q04 North West London SHA	59.9	46.3	75.0	14.1	13.1
Q05 North Central London SHA	59.2	23.5	50.8	16.4	9.6
Q06 North East London SHA	68.2	51.1	74.2	17.0	14.3
Q07 South East London SHA	57.1	29.3	52.4	16.0	19.2
Q08 South West London SHA	59.6	20.8	50.5	9.2	4.4
Q09 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear SHA	1.4	0.0	0.9	1.1	0.0
Q10 County Durham and Tees Valley SHA	0.9	0.0	1.6	0.0	0.0
Q11 North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire SHA	1.3	1.0	4.0	3.7	0.0
Q12 West Yorkshire SHA	10.9	2.0	5.7	4.4	6.9
Q13 Cumbria and Lancashire SHA	3.8	1.3	2.5	7.0	0.0
Q14 Greater Manchester SHA	11.5	2.8	2.3	3.4	0.0
Q15 Cheshire and Merseyside SHA	5.7	4.4	5.5	4.3	0.0
Q16 Thames Valley SHA	27.1	13.6	15.2	3.9	0.0
Q17 Hampshire and Isle of Wight SHA	9.1	3.7	8.1	1.9	9.1
Q18 Kent and Medway SHA	25.3	11.3	21.3	3.9	3.3
Q19 Surrey and Sussex SHA	34.3	22.6	49.5	5.7	5.1
Q20 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire SHA	9.3	2.6	6.9	2.0	0.0
Q21 South West Peninsula SHA	1.4	0.0	0.5	2.1	0.0
Q22 Dorset and Somerset SHA	8.1	0.0	9.5	4.7	0.0
Q23 South Yorkshire SHA	5.3	12.9	2.0	3.2	5.9
Q24 Trent SHA	7.5	4.0	7.0	5.2	11.5
Q25 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland SHA	19.7	0.0	8.7	8.9	8.3
Q26 Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA	3.8	1.7	6.2	2.8	0.0
Q27 Birmingham and The Black Country SHA	25.2	20.3	27.8	14.3	11.1
Q28 West Midlands South SHA	14.3	6.4	12.4	5.4	0.0
1 Percentages are calculated on staff whose ethnic group is known and are based on staff expressed as a headcount.

Source: Department of Health Non-Medical Workforce Census.