To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how many community mental and physical handicap nurses are employed per resident in each health authority in the north-west and in Greater London.
Such information as is held centrally is in the table. The hon. Member may wish to get in touch with the RHA chairmen concerned for the remaining details.
| Community psychiatric nursing at 30 September 1986 | |
| North western regional health authority by district | |
| District health authority | 1Whole-time equivalent staff in post per 100,000 population |
| Lancaster | 9·9 |
| Blackpool/Wyre/Fylde | 5·3 |
| Preston | 12·0 |
| Blackburn/Hyndburn/Ribble Valley | 6·6 |
| Burnley/Pendle/Rossendale | — |
| West Lancashire | 7·5 |
| Chorley and South Ribble | 7·8 |
| Bolton | 4·6 |
| Bury | 7·5 |
| North Manchester | 9·0 |
| Central Manchester | 7·9 |
| South Manchester | 8·6 |
| Oldham | 2·7 |
| Rochdale | — |
| Salford | 7·9 |
| Stockport | 4·8 |
| Tameside and Glossop | 4·5 |
| Trafford | 6·9 |
| Wigan | 4·6 |
| North western regional health authority | 5·7 |
Sources: DHSS Annual Census of NHS Non-Medical Manpower.
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.
1 Calculated on unrounded whole-time equivalent staff in post and resident population numbers.
Community psychiatric nursing staff in post at 30 September 1986
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District health authorities within Greater London
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District health authority
| Whole-time equivalent per 100,000 population1
|
| Barnet | 5·3 |
| Harrow | 7·4 |
| Hillingdon | 3·4 |
| Hounslow and Spelthorne | 4·2 |
| Ealing | 9·0 |
| Brent | 3·9 |
| Paddington and North Kensington | 5·0 |
| Riverside | 9·0 |
| Barking/Havering/Brentwood | 2·8 |
| Hampstead | 18·4 |
| Bloomsbury | 7·5 |
| Islington | 4·8 |
| City and Hackney | 3·6 |
| Newham | 4·4 |
| Tower Hamlets | 1·3 |
| Enfield | 1·1 |
| Haringey | 1·0 |
| Redbridge | 1·3 |
| Waltham Forest | 1·4 |
| Bexley | 5·9 |
District health authority
| Whole-time equivalent per 100,000 population1
|
| Greenwich | 5·0 |
| Bromley | 0·3 |
| West Lambeth | 12·2 |
| Camberwell | 4·0 |
| Lewisham and North Southwark | 6·1 |
| Croydon | 4·1 |
| Kingston and Esher | 8·4 |
| Richmond/Twickenham/Roehampton | 3·9 |
| Wandsworth | 16·8 |
| Merton and Sutton | 4·2 |
| Greater London2 | 5·1 |
1 Calculated on unrounded whole-time equivalent staff in post and resident population estimates. | |
2 Includes district health authorities listed above—designated as "Greater London" area. | |
Sources: DHSS annual Census of NHS Non-Medical Manpower. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.