To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the ratio of trained theatre staff to patients.
The information requested is not available centrally in the format requested.The number of trained theatre staff for whom information is held is shown in the table. The provisional number of in-patient and day cases treated in hospitals in 1990–91 (finished consultant episodes) for all acute specialities was 7,014,000.
Trained Theatre Staff working wholly or partly in Theatres Hospital Medical and Dental staff at 30 September 1990 (England)
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Specialty
| Number
| WTE
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| General Surgery | 3,786 | 3,522·8 |
| Cardio-thoracic Surgery | 368 | 352·5 |
| Otolaryngology | 1,135 | 943·4 |
| Neurosurgery | 258 | 246·2 |
| Opthalmology | 1,551 | 1,155·7 |
| Paediatric Surgery | 135 | 127·6 |
| Plastic Surgery | 285 | 258·8 |
| Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery | 2,444 | 2,199·2 |
| Urology | 537 | 500·3 |
| Cardiology | 560 | 437·3 |
| Paediatrics | 2,603 | 2,316·2 |
| Obstetrics and Gynaecology | 3,409 | 2,814·9 |
| Anaesthetics | 5,047 | 4,497·4 |
| Radiology | 1,663 | 1,552·0 |
| Radiotherapy | 522 | 451·2 |
| Histopathology | 952 | 839·5 |
| Oral Surgery | 1,111 | 719·9 |
| Total of above specialties | 26,366 | 22,934·9 |
Hospital Non-Medical staff at 30 September 1990 (1)
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Number
| WTE (2)
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| Qualified Nurses | 12,410 | 10,880 |
| Grand Total | 38,776 | 33,814·9 |
Note: (1) Technical staff (including Operating Assistants (ODAs) and Perfusionists) play an important role in operating theatres but are not identified separately on statistical returns.
(2) All figures are independently rounded to the nearest 10.
Source: Department of Health (SM 13) Annual Censuses of NHS medical and non-medical manpower.