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Doctors And Nurses (Thanet)

Volume 904: debated on Wednesday 4 February 1976

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the number of health service employees in the Thanet area, as a percentage of the population, in the following categories; hospital con

Staff per 10,000 population
EnglandCanterbury/Thanet
Hospital medical and dental consultant staff2·12·1
Hospital medical and dental other staff3·63·3
Hospital nurses and midwives58·676·4
Non-hospital nurses and midwives (including school health service staff)6·95·70
Comparative figures for hospital nurses are normally related to staffed available beds which are not always consistent with district population figures.

sultants, hospital doctors, hospital nurses, non-hospital nurses, including those employed in the School Health Service; and how this compares with the national average.

Following are the figures, at 30th September 1974, in terms of whole-time equivalents:I regret that the information on expenditure given in my reply to the hon. Member on 28th January was incorrect. It should be as follows:

The provisional figures for Canterbury were:

Expenditure

Per head of Population Health District

England

£

£

£

Revenue15,847,92957·6550·60
Capital886,0003·225·76
Total16,733,92960·8756·36