Genetic Information
Mr. Tony Lloyd:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the benefit of allowing insurance companies to have access to genetic information about individuals. [147026]
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Yvette Cooper
[holding answer 30 January 2001]: While individuals cannot be required to take a genetic test by an insurance company, they may be asked to divulge the results of certain specific genetic tests already taken. We recognise that there is widespread unease about the possible unfair use of genetic information in general. Because of this we have asked the Human Genetics Commission to look at the wider social and ethical issues involved in the use of genetic data in insurance and to report their recommendations to Ministers.
Nurses and Doctors
Miss Geraldine Smith:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) nurses and (b) doctors were working in the National Health Service in January. [149169]
Mr. Denham:
The latest information available is in the table.
National Health Service nurses and doctors in England
as at 30 September 2000
| At 30 September 2000 | Whole-time equivalents | Numbers/ headcount
|
|---|
| All Nursing staff(47) | 358,860 | 462,050
|
| Of which: | |
|
| Qualified nurses | 266,990 | 335,950
|
| All NHS doctors(48),(49) | 90,640 | 97,440
|
(47) Hospital and community health service nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff including learners and general medical service practice nurses.
(48) Includes hospital medical and dental staff and general practitioners.
(49) Whole-time equivalent general medical practitioners are estimated using the results from the 1992-93 GMP workload Survey.
Note:
Figures are rounded to the nearest ten.
Source:
Department of Health Medical and Dental Workforce Census.
Department of Health Non-Medical Workforce Census.
Department of Health General and Personal Medical Services Statistics.
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NHS Vacancies
Mr. Harvey:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list (a) nationally and (b) by health authority, the number of NHS vacancies for (i) doctors, (ii) nurses, midwives and health visitors and (iii) the professions allied to medicine, for each year since 1990 for which figures are available. [150900]
Mr. Denham:
The information requested is shown in the table.
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Vacancies(50) for medical and dental staff, nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff and the professions allied to medicine, within National Health Service trusts for each health authority area, in England, as at 31 March each year
| | Medical and Dental | Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting | Professions allied to medicine
|
|---|
| Health authority | 1999 | 2000 | 1999 | 2000 | 1999 | 2000
|
|---|
| Total Vacancies(50) | | 530 | 760 | 7,150 | 9,870 | 860 | 1,510
|
| | | | | | | |
|
| QA2 | Hillingdon | (52)-- | (52)-- | (52)-- | 10 | (52)-- | (53)--
|
| QA3 | Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster | 10 | (53)-- | 220 | 250 | 20 | 30
|
| QA4 | Enfield and Haringey | 10 | (53)-- | 60 | 80 | 10 | 10
|
| QA5 | Redbridge and Waltham Forest | 10 | 10 | 150 | 100 | 20 | 30
|
| QA6 | Bedfordshire | (53)-- | (53)-- | 20 | 40 | 20 | (53)--
|
| QA7 | Berkshire | (52)-- | (53)-- | 100 | 140 | 10 | 30
|
| QA8 | Buckinghamshire | 10 | (53)-- | 120 | 140 | 10 | 10
|
| QA9 | Cambridge and Huntingdon(51) | (52)-- | (54)-- | (53)-- | (54)-- | (52)-- | (54)--
|
| QAA | Bexley and Greenwich | 10 | 10 | 150 | 110 | 10 | 10
|
| QAC | Bromley | 10 | 10 | 100 | 120 | 10 | (53)--
|
| QAD | Croydon | 10 | (53)-- | 120 | 70 | 20 | 10
|
| QAE | East Kent | 10 | 20 | 110 | 300 | 10 | 20
|
| QAF | West Kent | (53)-- | (53)-- | 30 | 130 | 20 | 40
|
| QAG | Kingston and Richmond | (52)-- | 10 | (52)-- | 130 | (52)-- | 20
|
| QAH | Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham | (53)-- | 50 | 210 | 490 | 10 | 80
|
| QAJ | Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth | (53)-- | (52)-- | 230 | 200 | 20 | 30
|
| QAK | East Surrey | 10 | (53)-- | 120 | 10 | 10 | (52)--
|
| QAL | West Surrey | (53)-- | (53)-- | 260 | 200 | 10 | 30
|
| QAM | East Sussex, Brighton and Hove | 10 | (53)-- | 140 | 60 | 10 | (53)--
|
| QAN | West Sussex | (53)-- | (53)-- | 100 | 250 | 10 | 30
|
| QAP | Barking and Havering | 10 | 20 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 30
|
| QAQ | Barnet | (52)-- | (53)-- | 60 | 70 | 50 | 10
|
| QAR | Brent and Harrow | 10 | (53)-- | 130 | 110 | 10 | 30
|
| QAT | Camden and Islington | (53)-- | 20 | 370 | 590 | 10 | 40
|
| QAV | Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow | (53)-- | 10 | 40 | 320 | (53)-- | 40
|
| QAW | East London and the City | 20 | 20 | 480 | 380 | 40 | 30
|
| QAX | North Essex | (53)-- | 10 | 170 | 240 | 30 | 50
|
| QAY | South Essex | 10 | (53)-- | 80 | 30 | (53)-- | (53)--
|
| QC1 | South Lancashire | 10 | (53)-- | (53)-- | 10 | (53)-- | (53)--
|
| QC2 | Liverpool | 10 | 20 | 70 | 80 | 20 | 20
|
| QC3 | Manchester | 10 | 10 | 210 | 150 | 20 | 30
|
| QC4 | Morecambe bay | (53)-- | 10 | (52)-- | 10 | (52)-- | (53)--
|
| QC5 | St. Helens and Knowsley | 10 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 20 | 10
|
| QC6 | Salford and Trafford | (52)-- | (53)-- | 70 | 50 | 10 | (53)--
|
| QC7 | Sefton | (53)-- | (53)-- | 30 | 30 | (53)-- | 10
|
| QC8 | Stockport | 10 | (53)-- | 60 | 20 | (53)-- | 10
|
| QC9 | West Pennine | 10 | 10 | 50 | 70 | 20 | 10
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| QCA | East Norfolk | (53)-- | (54)-- | 30 | (54)-- | (53)-- | (54)--
|
| QCC | Northamptonshire | 10 | 10 | 80 | 50 | (53)-- | 30
|
| QCD | North West Anglia(51) | 10 | (54)-- | 40 | (54)-- | (53)-- | (54)--
|
| QCE | Oxfordshire | (53)-- | (53)-- | 80 | 190 | (53)-- | 10
|
| QCF | Suffolk | (53)-- | 20 | 10 | 50 | 20 | 20
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| QCG | Barnsley | 10 | (53)-- | (53)-- | 10 | (52)-- | (53)--
|
| QCH | North Derbyshire | (52)-- | (53)-- | 20 | 10 | (53)-- | (53)--
|
| QCJ | South Derbyshire | (53)-- | (53)-- | (52)-- | 60 | (52)-- | 20
|
| QCK | Doncaster | (52)-- | (53)-- | 20 | 20 | 10 | 10
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| QCL | Leicestershire | 10 | 10 | 40 | 130 | 10 | 10
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| QCM | Lincolnshire | (53)-- | (52)-- | 20 | (53)-- | 10 | (53)--
|
| QCN | North Nottinghamshire | 10 | (53)-- | 30 | 20 | 10 | (53)--
|
| QCP | Nottingham | (53)-- | 10 | 110 | 110 | 10 | 20
|
| QCQ | Rotherham | (53)-- | 10 | 20 | 10 | (53)-- | (53)--
|
| QCR | Sheffield | (53)-- | (53)-- | 80 | 90 | (53)-- | 10
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| QCT | Bury and Rochdale | 10 | 10 | 30 | 40 | (52)-- | 10
|
| QCV | North Cheshire | 10 | (53)-- | 20 | 30 | 10 | 10
|
| QCW | South Cheshire | (53)-- | (53)-- | 30 | 30 | (53)-- | 10
|
| QCX | East Lancashire | 10 | 10 | 40 | 10 | (53)-- | (53)--
|
| QCY | North West Lancashire | 10 | (53)-- | 20 | 130 | 10 | 10
|
| QD1 | North and Mid Hampshire | (53)-- | 10 | 110 | 100 | 10 | 20
|
| QD2 | Portsmouth and SE Hampshire | 10 | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 20
|
| QD3 | Southampton and SW Hampshire | 10 | 10 | 140 | 210 | (53)-- | 30
|
| QD4 | Isle of Wight | (52)-- | (53)-- | (52)-- | (53)-- | (53)-- | (53)--
|
| QD5 | Somerset | (53)-- | 10 | 30 | 30 | (53)-- | (53)--
|
| QD6 | South and West Devon | 20 | 10 | 30 | 20 | (53)-- | 20
|
| QD7 | Wiltshire | (53)-- | 10 | 140 | 120 | 10 | (53)--
|
| QD8 | Avon | 10 | 10 | 80 | 300 | 10 | 20
|
| QD9 | Birmingham | 10 | 30 | 300 | 350 | 20 | 40
|
| QDA | Wigan and Bolton | 10 | 10 | 20 | 80 | (52)-- | (53)--
|
| QDC | Wirral | (52)-- | (53)-- | 10 | 20 | 10 | 20
|
| QDD | Bradford | (53)-- | 20 | 100 | 80 | (53)-- | 10
|
| QDE | County Durham | 10 | 10 | 20 | 30 | (53)-- | 10
|
| QDF | East Riding | (53)-- | 10 | 20 | 20 | (52)-- | 10
|
| QDG | Gateshead and South Tyneside | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | (53)-- | 10
|
| QDH | Leeds | (53)-- | 10 | 230 | 240 | 20 | 30
|
| QDJ | Newcastle and North Tyneside | (53)-- | 10 | 110 | 260 | 10 | 10
|
| QDK | North Cumbria | (53)-- | 10 | (52)-- | 10 | (52)-- | (53)--
|
| QDL | South Humber | 20 | 10 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 20
|
| QDM | Northumberland | 10 | 10 | 50 | 40 | (53)-- | 20
|
| QDN | Sunderland | (53)-- | (53)-- | (52)-- | 10 | (53)-- | (53)--
|
| QDP | Tees | (53)-- | (53)-- | (53)-- | 30 | (53)-- | 10
|
| QDQ | Wakefield | (53)-- | 10 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 10
|
| QDR | North Yorkshire | (53)-- | 10 | 20 | 10 | (53)-- | (53)--
|
| QDT | Calderdale and Kirklees | 10 | 20 | 40 | 50 | (53)-- | 10
|
| QDV | Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | 10 | (53)-- | 20 | (52)-- | (53)-- | (52)--
|
| QDW | Dorset | (53)-- | (53)-- | 20 | 20 | 10 | (53)--
|
| QDX | North and East Devon | (53)-- | 10 | (53)-- | 60 | (53)-- | 10
|
| QDY | Gloucestershire | (53)-- | (53)-- | 30 | 60 | (53)-- | 10
|
| QEA | Coventry | (53)-- | 10 | 10 | 70 | (53)-- | 10
|
| QEC | Dudley | (53)-- | (53)-- | (53)-- | 60 | 10 | 10
|
| QED | Herefordshire | (53)-- | (53)-- | 20 | (53)-- | (53)-- | (52)--
|
| QEE | Sandwell | (53)-- | (53)-- | 60 | 80 | 10 | 20
|
| EF | Shropshire | (53)-- | (53)-- | 10 | 30 | 10 | 20
|
| QEG | Solihull | (53)-- | (52)-- | (52)-- | 30 | (52)-- | (53)--
|
| QEH | North Staffordshire | 10 | 10 | 80 | 120 | 20 | 10
|
| QEJ | South Staffordshire | (53)-- | (53)-- | 40 | 20 | 20 | 10
|
| QEK | Walsall | 10 | 10 | 20 | 50 | (53)-- | 20
|
| QEL | Warwickshire | (53)-- | (53)-- | 10 | 50 | (52)-- | (53)--
|
| QEM | Wolverhampton | (53)-- | (53)-- | 80 | 80 | 10 | 10
|
| QEN | Worcester and District | 10 | 10 | 70 | 30 | 10 | 20
|
| QEP | East and North Hertfordshire | (53)-- | 10 | 90 | 150 | (53)-- | 30
|
| QEQ | West Hertfordshire | (53)-- | 10 | 110 | 190 | 20 | 40
|
| QER | Cambridge(51) | (54)-- | 20 | (54)-- | 350 | (54)-- | 50
|
| QET | Norfolk(51) | (54)-- | (53)-- | (54)-- | 70 | (54)-- | 20
|
(50) Posts that had been vacant for three months or more as at 31 March of each year.
(51) In April 2000 Cambridge and Huntingdon HA, East Norfolk HA and Northwest Anglia HA merged to become Cambridge HA and Norfolk HA therefore the 1999 and 2000 information is not directly comparable.
(52) Denotes zero.
(53) Denotes less than five or greater than zero.
(54) Denotes not available.
Notes:
Figures are whole-time equivalents rounded to the nearest 10.
Source
Department of Health Vacancies Survey.
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