Service Manning

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the establishment of (a) doctors by speciality, (b) nurses and (c) technicians required by (i) field hospitals of the TA AMS, (ii) medical squadrons of the TA AMS and (iii) TA AMS specialist units, stating in each case the number of (A) doctors by speciality, (B) nurses and (C) technicians serving in each category; and if he will make a statement. [118810]

[holding answer 19 June 2003]: Overall recruiting and retention in the Territorial Army (TA) Army Medical Services (AMS) has improved over the past three years following a targeted advertising campaign in September 1999, and continuing this effort remains a priority. The information requested is detailed in the tables:

		Amb Regt		Med Gp		Total
		Est	Strength	Est	Strength	Est	Strength
12	Medicine Cons	0	0	0	0	113	12
13	Opthalmologist	0	0	0	0	6	0
14	Neurologist	0	0	0	0	0	2
15	GU Med Cons	0	0	0	0	2	1
16	Cardiologist	0	0	0	0	2	0
17	Dermatologist	0	0	0	0	2	0
18	Gastroenterologist	0	0	0	0	2	1
19	Infectious Diseases	0	0	0	0	2	0
20	Respiratory Medicine	0	0	0	0	2	1
21	Renal Medicine	0	0	0	0	2	0
22	Public Health	0	0	0	0	4	2
23	Paediatrics	0	0	0	0	4	5
24	Rheum & Rehabilitation	0	0	0	0	2	1
25	Psychiatric Cons	0	0	0	0	31	8
26	Radiology Cons	0	0	0	0	25	4
27	Path Cons (Clin Chem)	0	0	0	0	13	3
28	Path Cons (Haem)	0	0	0	0	13	2
29	Path Cons (Micro—Bio)	0	0	0	0	13	3
30	Path Cons (Histiopath)	0	0	0	0	2	1
31	Med Offr NYQ	0	0	0	0	0	100
32	Total	1	1	0	0	771	486
33	Percentage Manned	100		0

RAMC—Professions allied to medicine
		Ind Hosp		Fd Amb		Med Sqns		Specialists
Ser	Status/Profession	Est	Strength	Est	Strength	Est	Strength	Est	Strength
	Officer Posts
1	Tech Officer Rad	20	17	0	0	0	0	2	1
2	Tech Officer Lab	20	20	0	0	0	0	8	5
3	Environmental Health Offr	10	24	4	3	1	0	18	6
4	Pharmacist	20	23	0	0	0	0	12	3
5	Physiotherapist	80	64	0	1	0	0	11	3
6	PAM NYQ	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Sub Total	150	154	4	4	1	0	51	18
8	Percenrage Manned	103		100		0		35
	OR Posts
9	Radiographer	40	5	0	0	0	0	7	5
10	Lab Technician	70	21	0	0	0	0	26	4
11	Op Dept Prac	80	29	0	0	16	2	48	12
12	Sub Total	190	55	0	0	16	2	81	21
13	Percentage Manned	29	0	13	26
14	Total RAMC	340	209	4	4	17	2	132	39
15	Percentage Manned	61		100		12		30

		Amb Regt		Med Gp		Total
		Est	Strength	Est	Strength	Est	Strength
	Officer Posts
1	Tech Officer Rad	0	0	0	0	22	18
2	Tech Officer Lab	0	0	0	0	28	25
3	Environmental Health Offr	0	0	0	0	33	33
4	Pharmacist	0	0	0	0	32	26
5	Physiotherapist	0	0	0	0	91	68
6	PAM NYQ	0	0	0	0	0	6
7	Sub Total	0	0	0	0	206	176
8	Percentage Manned	0	0
	OR Posts
9	Radiographer	0	0	0	0	47	10
10	Lab Technician	0	0	0	0	96	25
11	Op Dept Prac	0	0	0	0	144	43
12	Sub Total	0	0	0	0	287	78
13	Percentage Manned	0	0
14	Total RAMC	0	0	0	0	480	254
15	Percentage Manned	0	0	0

QARANC—Nursing posts
Ser	Status/Profession	Ind Hasp		Fd Amb		Med Sqns		Specialists
(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)	(e)	(f)	(g)	(h)	(i)	(j)
	Officer posts
1	OC & 2i/c Nursing Sqn	20	17	0	0	0	0	2	2
2	RGN (Adult)	1,230	604	26	29	22	31	117	113
3	Theatre Sister (ENB 183)	40	49	0	0	0	0	23	9
4	A&E(ENB199)	140	90	0	0	0	0	14	5
5	ITU (ENB 100)	220	85	0	0	0	0	22	11
6	Orthopaedic (ENB 219)	100	24	0	0	0	0	10	4
7	Gynaecology (ENB 225)	20	3	0	0	0	0	2	0
8	GU Med (ENB 276)	40	9	0	0	0	0	4	1
9	Burns (ENB 264)	40	11	0	0	0	0	10	3
10	Neurosurgical (ENB 148)	20	9	0	0	0	0	2	1
11	Opthalmology (ENB 346)	20	3	0	0	0	0	4	2
12	Registered Midwife	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
13	RSCN	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	1
14	Community Psych Nurse	40	32	8	2	0	0	4	3
15	RMN	40	50	4	2	0	0	9	8
16	NO NYQ	0	75	0	3	0	4	0	2
17	Sub total	1,970	1,061	38	36	22	35	295	165
18	Percentage manned	54		95		159		56
	OR Posts
19	RGN (Adult)	0	0	0	0	17	5	1	1
20	Sub total	0	0	0	0	17	5	1	1
21	Percentage manned	0		0		29		100
	Total OR and Officer posts
22	Total	1,970	1,061	38	36	39	40	296	166
23	Percentage manned	54		95		103		56

	Amb Regt		Med Gp		Liab	Str
		(k)	(l)	(m)	(n)	(o)	(p)
	Officer Posts
1	OC & 2i/c Nursing Sqn	0	0	0	0	22	19
2	RGN (Adult)	0	0	0	0	1,455	777
3	Theatre Sister (ENB 183)	0	0	0	0	63	58
4	A&E(ENB 199)	0	0	0	0	154	95
5	ITU (ENB 100)	0	0	0		242	96
6	Orthopaedic (ENB 219)	0	0	0		110	28
7	Gynaecology (ENB 225)	0	0	0		22	3
8	GU Med (ENB 276)	0	0	0		44	10
9	Burns (ENB 264)	0	0	0		50	14
10	Neurosurgical (ENB 148)	0	0	0		22	10
11	Opthalmology (ENB 346)	0	0	0		24	5
12	Registered Midwife	0	0	0		6	0
13	RSCN	0	0	0		6	1
14	Community Psych Nurse	0	0	0		52	37
15	RMN	0	0	0		53	60
16	NO NYQ	0	0	0		0	84
Sub total	0	0	0	0	2,325	1,297
18	Percentage manned	0		0
	OR Posts
19	RGN (Adult)	0	0	0	0	18	6
20	Sub total	0	0	0	0	18	6
21	Percentage manned	0		0
	Total OR and Officer posts
22	Total	0	0	0	0	2,343	1,303
23	Percentage manned	0		0

Volume 407: debated on Wednesday 25 June 2003