To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) nurses and midwives, (b) hospital doctors, (c) general practitioners, (d) general practitioners' support staff and (e) dentists were employed by Southern Derbyshire health authority in 1984 and in the latest year for which figures are available.
The information requested is as follows:
| 1984 | 1988 | |
| Nurses and midwives1 | 3,870 | 3,980 |
| General practitioners2 | 438 | 475 |
| General practitioner support staff1 | 483 | 631 |
| Dentists3 | 190 | 219 |
| Hospital and community health service dentists4 | 13·1 | 10·9 |
| 1 Whole time equivalents. | ||
| 2 Unrestricted principals in the Derbyshire family practitioner committee area. | ||
| 3 Figure covers dentists in general practice in the Derbyshire family practitioner area. | ||
| 4 Includes permanent paid, honorary and locum staff but excludes all consultants and senior registrars whose contracts are held by the regional health authority. | ||
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) in-patients, (b) out-patients and (c) day-cases were treated by Southern Derbyshire health authority in 1984 and the latest year for which figures are available.
The information requested is given in the table.
| Southern Derbyshire District Health Authority | |||
| 1984 | 1988–89 | Percentage change | |
| In-patients | 53,558 | 54,759 | +2 |
| Out-patients | 324,497 | 1317,672 | -2 |
| Day-cases | 3,262 | 4,977 | +52 |
Sources: 1984. SH3
1988–89. SH3A, KH05, KH09, KH18
1 The 1988–89 data include 2,041 ward attenders who would previously have been classified as out-patients.