asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list, by district, the numbers of consultants employed in the National Health Service as (a) whole-time, (b) maximum part-time and (c) part-time.
Information on employment of National Health Service consultants by district is not available centrally for all districts. Numbers of consultant contracts held by regional health authorities, district health authorities designated for teaching purposes, and special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals are set out in the table. Some consultants may hold contracts with more than one authority.
| Number of NHS consultants employed by RHAs and DHAs designated for teaching purposes in England and the London Postgraduate Teaching Hospitals at 30 September 1986 | |||
| Whole-time | Max part-time | Other part-time | |
| Northern RHA | 537 | 161 | 26 |
| Newcastle RHA | 164 | 43 | 34 |
| Yorkshire RHA | 371 | 306 | 15 |
| Leeds Western HA | 55 | 22 | 45 |
| Leeds Eastern HA | 76 | 30 | 3 |
| Trent RHA | 375 | 213 | 20 |
| Leicestershire HA | 92 | 77 | 5 |
| Nottingham HA | 94 | 71 | 15 |
| Sheffield HA | 130 | 50 | 8 |
| East Anglian RHA | 265 | 171 | 26 |
| Cambridge HA | 67 | 47 | 11 |
| NW Thames RHA | 329 | 264 | 110 |
| Paddington/North Kensington HA | 23 | 25 | 40 |
| Riverside HA | 51 | 56 | 73 |
| NE Thames RHA | 339 | 294 | 101 |
Whole-time
| Max part-time
| Other part-time
| |
| Hampstead HA | 36 | 37 | 45 |
| Bloomsbury HA | 47 | 85 | 102 |
| City & Hackney HA | 38 | 44 | 47 |
| Tower Hamlets HA | 18 | 30 | 40 |
| SE Thames RHA | 341 | 350 | 44 |
| West Lambeth HA | 37 | 30 | 46 |
| Camberwell HA | 21 | 43 | 25 |
| Lewisham/North Southwark HA | 76 | 42 | 58 |
| SW Thames RHA | 290 | 341 | 74 |
| Wandsworth HA | 40 | 48 | 59 |
| Wessex RHA | 301 | 241 | 33 |
| Southampton/SW Hampshire HA | 78 | 48 | 6 |
| Oxford RHA | 221 | 217 | 29 |
| Oxfordshire HA | 93 | 66 | 10 |
| South Western RHA | 354 | 256 | 49 |
| Bristol & Weston HA | 67 | 52 | 12 |
| West Midlands RHA | 672 | 471 | 55 |
| Cental Birmingham HA | 95 | 59 | 9 |
| Mersey RHA | 299 | 178 | 24 |
| Liverpool HA | 125 | 49 | 30 |
| North Western RHA | 498 | 326 | 42 |
| Central Manchester Health Authority | 57 | 51 | 13 |
| South Manchester Health Authority | 82 | 62 | 12 |
| Salford Health Authority | 64 | 42 | 10 |
| SHAs for the London Postgraduate Teaching Hospitals | |||
| Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's | 30 | 10 | 19 |
| Hospitals for Sick Children | 19 | 20 | 28 |
| National Hospital for Nervous Diseases | 11 | 19 | 16 |
| Moorfields Eye Hospital | 3 | 14 | 26 |
| Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals | 19 | 7 | 11 |
| National Heart and Chest Hospitals | 21 | 29 | 16 |
| Royal Marsden Hospital | 12 | 15 | 16 |
| Eastman Dental Hospital | 10 | 2 | 7 |
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what is the number of consultant orthopaedic surgeons per head of population in each regional health authority;(2) what is the number of consultant dermatologists per head of population for each regional health authority.
The information requested is in the table.
Number of whole·time equivalent of consultants in the specialties of traumatic and orthopaedic surgery and dermatology per 100,000 population at 30 September 1986: analysis by region within England
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WTE per 100,000 population
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Traumatic and orthopaedic surgery
| Dermatology
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| England1 | 1·36 | 0·42 |
| Northern | 1·48 | 0·40 |
| Yorkshire | 1·39 | 0·41 |
| Trent | 1·23 | 0·35 |
| East Anglian | 1·57 | 0·35 |
| North West Thames | 1·16 | 0·35 |
| North East Thames | 1·52 | 0·50 |
| South East Thames | 1·31 | 0·70 |
| South West Thames | 1·16 | 0·41 |
| Wessex | 1·10 | 0·35 |
| Oxford | 1·35 | 0·47 |
| South Western | 1·24 | 0·47 |
| West Midlands | 1·53 | 0·38 |
| Mersey | 1·33 | 0·34 |
| North Western | 1·61 | 0·33 |
1 Including special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals. | ||