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Ms. Armstrong
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his answer of Friday 18 March regarding the shortfall of nurse teachers, whether his Department has access to data and figures collected by the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting on the shortfall in nurse teachers.
Mr. Newton
Information published by the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health
Senior hospital doctors (whole-time equivalent) per 100,000 in-patient cases treated: England | ||||||||
1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | |
England | 222 | 220 | 222 | 227 | 220 | 218 | 215 | 217 |
Northern | 217 | 214 | 220 | 236 | 223 | 220 | 220 | 220 |
Yorkshire | 188 | 181 | 188 | 194 | 183 | 178 | 177 | 178 |
Trent | 201 | 200 | 197 | 206 | 198 | 198 | 195 | 200 |
East Anglian | 239 | 224 | 228 | 242 | 231 | 228 | 229 | 226 |
North West Thames | 270 | 269 | 274 | 242 | 243 | 239 | 241 | 240 |
North East Thames | 217 | 215 | 219 | 244 | 238 | 232 | 239 | 240 |
South East Thames | 231 | 233 | 234 | 232 | 231 | 223 | 212 | 220 |
South West Thames | 257 | 260 | 261 | 250 | 244 | 238 | 238 | 245 |
Wessex | 216 | 213 | 208 | 216 | 211 | 214 | 214 | 208 |
Oxford | 216 | 214 | 216 | 230 | 224 | 231 | 228 | 233 |
South Western | 211 | 213 | 215 | 218 | 213 | 209 | 206 | 205 |
West Midlands | 217 | 215 | 216 | 220 | 213 | 209 | 206 | 212 |
Mersey | 210 | 214 | 211 | 216 | 207 | 205 | 203 | 202 |
North Western | 198 | 203 | 204 | 212 | 206 | 206 | 200 | 203 |
SHAs | 385 | 385 | 380 | 387 | 392 | 408 | 399 | 405 |
Notes: | ||||||||
(1) Includes permanent paid, honorary and locum staff in the grades of consultant, associate specialist and hospital practitioner within the medical specialties. | ||||||||
(2) All figures have been rounded to the nearest whole number of the whole time equivalent. | ||||||||
(3) Because of the NHS restructuring in 1982 figures on in-patients cases treated for the four Thames regions and Special Health Authorities are not strictly comparable over the whole period. |