asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many consultants are employed in the National Health Service in a full-time capacity in the following specialties: (a) geriatrics, (b) psycho-geriatrics, (c) psychiatry and (d) mental handicap; how many have applied for and been granted permission to engage in at least 10 per cent. private practice in these specialties; and if he will provide a breakdown per health board area.
The number of full-time consultants in post in the geriatric, psychiatric, including psycho-geriatric and mental handicap specialties in the Scottish health boards at 30 September 1981 are as follows. Although there are some consultants specialising full-time in psycho-geriatrics, no separate figures are available and general psychiatrists can also be involved in this work.All full-time consultants are entitled to engage in private practice, provided their annual earnings from such practice do not exceed 10 per cent. of their annual full-time NHS earnings. No information is held centrally on the numbers of consultants who exercise this entitlement.
Geriatrics | Psychiatry (including psycho-geriatrics) | Mental handicap | |
Grampian | 4 | 12 | 4 |
Tayside | 6 | 16 | 1 |
Lothian | 7 | 26 | — |
Greater Glasgow | 15 | 41 | 1 |
Lanarkshire | 4 | 13 | — |
Forth Valley | 1 | 8 | 3 |
Argyll and Clyde | 4 | 14 | — |
Ayrshire and Arran | 2 | 5 | 2 |
Dumfires and Galloway | 2 | 6 | — |
Borders | 1 | 2 | — |
Fife | 3 | 7 | 1 |
Highland | 2 | 8 | 1 |
Orkney | — | — | — |
Shetland | — | — | — |
Western Isles | 1 | — | — |
Scotland | 52 | 158 | 13 |