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Mr. Sproat
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how much, in the latest year for which figures are available, has been spent, under the National Health Service, on gold-work dentistry.
Sir George Young
It is estimated that the gross cost of dental treatment involving the use of gold approved for payment under the National Health Service during the year ended 31 December 1979 was £26 million (England and Wales). This represents gross fees for treatment clinically necessary including the dentists' net remuneration, practice expenses, the cost
| NHS MANPOWER | |||
| ENGLAND AS AT 30 SEPTEMBER 1978 | |||
| WHOLE-TIME EQUIVALENTS | |||
| Directory Employed Staff | Total | Whole-time | Part-time |
| (wte) | (wte) | (wte) | |
| Nurses and Midwives(1) | 347,499 | 257,401 | 90,098 |
| Medical and Dental(2) | (3)34,505 | 26,489 | (3)8,016 |
| Ancillary | 172,177 | 111,007 | 61,170 |
| of which: Catering staff | 15,978 | 8,886 | 7,092 |
| Domestic staff | 59,484 | 21,701 | 37,783 |
| Porters | 23,849 | 23,359 | 490 |
| Administrative and Clerical | 100,304 | 80,591 | 19,713 |
| Professional and Technical | 57,237 | 47,459 | 9,778 |
| of which: Technicians | 25,291 | 22,587 | 2,704 |
| Works and Maintenance | 25,443 | 25,398 | 45 |
| Ambulance staff(4) | 17,520 | 17,444 | 76 |
| All directly employed staff: | 754,685 | 565,789 | 188,896 |
| Independent Contractors(5) | Number | ||
| General Medical Practitioners(6)(7) | 22,651 | ||
| General Dental Practitioners | 11,919 | ||
| General Ophthalmic Practitioners(6)(8) | 7,051 | ||
| General Practice Pharmacy Contractors | 8,764 | ||
| All NHS manpower: | 805,070 | ||
| 1. Excludes agency nurses and agency midwives. | |||
| 2. Excludes locum staff, hospital practitioners, part-time medical/dental officers (clinical assistants), general medical practitioners participating in Hospital Staff Funds and occasional sessional staff for whom no wte is collected. | |||
| 3. Includes 1,226 honorary staff. | |||
| 4. Includes ambulance officers and control assistants. | |||
| 5. The figures relate to actual numbers. It is not possible to distinguish between whole and part-time. | |||
| 6. There is a minor element of double counting between general medical practitioners and ophthalmic medical practitioners. | |||
| 7. As at 1 October 1978. | |||
| 8. As at 31 December 1978. | |||