Health Visitors

Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list by clinical grade and specialty for each district health authority and regional health authority the number of health visitor staff employed as at 1 April.

[holding answer 11 June 1993]: The latest information available is shown in the table.

Region/district health authority	Scale F	Scale G	Scale H	Scale I	Total
East Yorkshire	0	30	10	—	40
Grimsby	—	30	0	—	30
Scunthorpe	0	30	10	0	50
Northallerton	—	20	0	0	20
York	—	50	0	0	50
Scarborough	0	30	10	0	40
Harrogate	—	10	0	0	20
Bradford	—	70	10	0	90
Airedale	0	30	10	—	40
Calderdale	10	50	10	0	60
Huddersfield	—	40	10	—	50
Dewsbury	0	—	10	0	10
Leeds	10	120	40	0	170
Wakefield	0	30	0	10	40
Pontefract	0	30	10	0	40
Trent RHA	10	810	150	40	1,000
North Derbyshire	—	60	10	0	70
Southern Derbyshire	—	80	10	10	100
Leicestershire	—	160	30	10	200
North Lincolnshire	—	40	0	0	50
South Lincolnshire	—	40	10	—	50
Bassetlaw	—	10	0	0	20
Central Nottinghamshire	0	40	20	0	60
Nottingham	0	120	20	10	150
Barnsley	0	50	10	—	50
Doncaster	10	60	10	—	70
Rotherham	0	50	10	0	70
Sheffield	—	90	10	10	110
East Anglian RHA	0	300	60	20	370
Cambridge	—	40	10	0	50
Peterborough	—	40	10	—	40
West Suffolk	—	40	10	0	50
East Suffolk	—	50	10	0	60
Norwich	0	50	20	0	80
Great Yarmouth and Waveney	—	30	0	0	40
West Norfolk and Wisbech	0	30	10	0	40
Huntingdon	—	20	0	—	20
North West Thames RHA	40	590	150	30	820
North Bedfordshire	0	40	10	—	50
South Bedfordshire	—	40	20	—	60
North Hertfordshire	—	30	10	0	40
East Hertfordshire	10	50	10	0	80
North West Hertfordshire	—	40	10	—	50
South West Hertfordshire	0	30	10	—	40
Barnet	0	10	10	0	20
Harrow	—	30	10	0	40
Hillingdon	0	30	10	0	40
Hounslow and Spelthorne	20	50	30	0	90
Ealing	—	60	20	10	90
Riverside	0	60	10	10	90
Parkside	10	100	20	0	120
North East Thames RHA	10	570	140	30	750
Basildon and Thurrock	0	40	10	0	50
Mid Essex	—	40	10	0	50
North East Essex	—	50	10	0	50
West Essex	—	40	0	—	40
Southend	—	30	10	0	50
Barking Havering and Brentwood	0	50	10	0	70
Hampstead	—	20	10	—	30
City and Hackney	0	40	10	0	50
Newham	—	40	10	10	60
Tower Hamlets	0	50	20	0	70
Enfield	0	30	10	0	40
Haringey	0	20	10	0	40
Redbridge	—	30	10	0	40
Waltham Forest	0	30	10	0	40
Bloomsbury and Islington	0	60	20	0	80
South East Thames RHA	0	540	130	30	700
Brighton	—	30	10	—	40
Eastbourne	—	50	10	0	60
Hastings	—	20	0	0	30
South East Kent	—	40	10	0	50
Canterbury and Thanet	—	50	0	0	50

Region/district health authority	Scale F	Scale G	Scale H	Scale I	Total
Dartford and Gravesham	—	40	10	—	40
Maidstone	—	30	10	0	40
Medway	0	50	10	—	60
Tunbridge Wells	—	30	0	0	40
Bexley	—	40	10	—	40
Greenwich	0	30	20	0	50
Bromley	—	40	10	10	60
West Lambeth	—	20	10	0	30
Camberwell	—	20	10	—	40
Lewisham and North Southwark	0	50	20	10	80
South West Thames RHA	10	510	60	10	590
North West Surrey	—	0	—	—	0
West Surrey and North East Hampshire	—	60	10	0	60
South West Surrey	0	40	0	—	40
Mid Surrey	0	40	0	0	40
East Surrey	—	40	10	0	40
Chichester	—	30	0	—	40
Mid Downs	0	60	10	0	70
Worthing District	—	40	10	0	50
Croydon	—	60	0	0	60
Kingston and Esher	—	—	—	—	—
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton	—	50	10	0	60
Wandsworth	—	30	10	—	40
Merton and Sutton	—	70	10	—	80
Wessex RHA	20	530	80	20	650
East Dorset	0	90	10	10	100
West Dorset	—	40	10	—	40
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire	0	90	10	—	100
Southampton and South West Hampshire	10	70	20	0	110
Winchester	—	30	0	—	40
Basingstoke and North Hampshire	—	30	10	0	40
Salisbury	0	30	0	0	40
Swindon	—	50	10	0	50
Bath District	0	80	10	0	100
Isle of Wight	—	20	0	—	20
Oxford RHA	10	470	90	20	580
East Berkshire	0	60	10	0	80
West Berkshire	0	80	10	10	100
Aylesbury Vale	—	30	0	—	30
Wycombe	—	50	10	0	60
Milton Keynes	0	40	10	0	50
Kettering	—	40	10	0	50
Northampton	0	60	10	0	80
Oxfordshire	—	100	20	10	130
South Western RHA	20	530	110	0	670
Bristol and District	10	170	20	0	210
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	—	60	30	—	90
Exeter	0	40	0	—	50
North Devon	—	20	0	—	30
Plymouth	—	50	20	—	70
Torbay	—	40	10	—	40
Cheltenham and District	0	30	10	—	40
Gloucester	0	60	10	0	70
Somerset	0	50	10	—	70
West Midlands RHA	20	890	160	40	1,110
HQ and Units	—	0	0	—	0
Bromsgrove and Redditch	0	40	0	0	40
Herefordshire	—	30	0	0	40
Kidderminster and District	0	30	0	—	30
Worcester and District	10	40	10	—	60
Shropshire	—	80	10	0	90
Mid Staffordshire	0	40	10	—	50
North Staffordshire	—	80	10	0	90
South East Staffordshire	—	50	10	0	50
South Warwickshire	0	30	0	0	40
East Birmingham	0	30	10	0	40
North Birmingham	—	30	10	0	40
West Birmingham	—	30	10	0	40
Coventry	—	50	0	0	50
Dudley	0	60	0	0	70
Sandwell	—	50	10	0	70

Region/district health authority	Scale F	Scale G	Scale H	Scale I	Total
Solihull	—	70	10	0	80
Walsall	—	20	20	10	50
Wolverhampton	—	50	10	0	60
North East Warwickshire	0	20	0	0	20
South Birmingham	0	70	20	10	100
Mersey RHA	10	380	90	10	500
Chester	—	—	0	—	0
Crewe	—	30	10	—	40
Halton	—	60	0	0	70
Macclesfield	—	20	10	—	30
Warrington	0	30	10	0	40
Liverpool	0	60	30	0	90
St. Helens and Knowsley	0	60	10	0	80
Southport and Formby	—	20	0	0	30
South Sefton	—	30	10	0	40
Wirral	0	70	10	0	80
North Western RHA	40	940	150	10	1,150
Lancaster	—	30	0	0	30
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde	20	70	20	—	110
Preston	—	40	0	—	40
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley	0	70	10	—	80
Burnley, F'endle and Rossendale	—	60	10	0	70
West Lancashire	0	30	10	—	40
Chorley and South Ribble	—	50	10	—	50
Bolton	0	60	10	—	70
Bury	0	30	10	—	40
North Manchester	0	40	10	0	50
Central Manchester	0	30	10	0	40
Oldham	l0	50	10	—	70

Volume 226: debated on Thursday 17 June 1993