HC Deb 22 January 2004 vol 416 cc1428-9W
Mr. Hoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people with dementia were in residential care in Lancashire in the last year for which figures are available; and how many people were funded by the NHS. [147856]

Miss Melanie Johnson

There were about 80 people with dementia receiving residential care in Lancashire in 2001–02. Information on the number of people with dementia in residential care funded by the national health service is not available.

Mr. Hoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many(a) doctors and (b) nurses work in the (i) Preston and (ii) Chorley hospitals; and what the pay costs were for each of the last three years. [147857]

Miss Melanie Johnson

The table shows the numbers and pay costs of doctors and nurses working in Preston and Chorley hospitals for the last three years of available data.

It should be noted that mental health services and acute services in this area were restructured in 2001–02, with some doctors and nurses previously counted within the returns for the acute trusts transferring to other trusts without hospital based care.

Staffing numbers and costs as at September14
Doctors Cost Nurses Cost
2000–01
Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 355 19,265.4 1,256 26,285.5
Chorley & South Ribble NHS Trust 118 8,311.5 772 20,267.5
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Total cost 27,576.9 46,553.0
2001–02
Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 348 22,277.1 1,330 30,616.0
Chorley & South Ribble NHS Trust 142 9,091.6 603 17,713.8
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Total cost 31,814.3 53,102.4
2002–031
Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Chorley & South Ribble NHS Trust
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 484 34,444.0 1,915 48,746.7
Total cost 36,298.7 74,330.4
12002–03 cost data is provisional

Source:

Department of Health medical and dental workforce census

Department of Health General and Personal Medical Services Statistics