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Vacancies

Dr. Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many vacancies per health authority there were in England, broken down by (a) dental and medical staff, (b) nursing and midwifery staff and (c) professions allied to medicine, in each of the last two years for which figures are available. [13612]

Mr. Hutton: The information requested is in the table.

Department of health vacancies survey, March 2001. Number of 3 month vacancies—by region and health authority areaswhole-time equivalents

	All medical and dental		Qualified nurses		Qualified allied health professionals
Health authority	2000	2001	2000	2001	2000	2001
England	770	920	10,110	9,000	1,450	1,820
Northern and Yorkshire	130	150	840	760	130	240
Bradford	20	10	80	70	10	20
Calderdale and Kirlees	20	20	50	90	10	10
County Durham and Darlington	10	20	30	10	10	10
East Riding and Hull	10	20	20	90	10	20
Gateshead and South Tyneside	10	10	30	20	10	10
Leeds	10	10	240	200	30	60
Newcastle and North Tyneside	10	0	260	40	10	10
North Cumbria	10	10	10	20	0	20
North Yorkshire	10	0	10	20	0	20
Northumberland	10	20	40	40	20	20
Sunderland	0	20	10	10	0	10
Tees	0	20	30	110	10	10
Wakefield	10	10	30	40	10	20
Trent	60	90	490	410	90	110
Barnsley	0	10	10	20	0	10
Doncaster	10	10	20	20	10	10
Leicestershire	10	0	130	50	10	0
Lincolnshire	0	10	0	50	0	30
North Derbyshire	0	0	10	20	0	10
North Nottinghamshire	10	10	20	20	0	0
Nottingham	10	10	110	150	20	10
Rotherham	10	10	10	20	0	10
Sheffield	0	10	90	60	10	0
South Humber	10	20	20	10	20	20
Southern Derbyshire	0	10	60	10	10	10
West Midlands	80	110	950	810	150	210
Birmingham	30	30	350	180	40	80
Coventry	10	10	70	90	10	30
Dudley	0	10	60	50	10	10
Herefordshire	0	10	0	40	0	10
North Staffordshire	10	20	120	170	10	30
Sandwell	0	0	80	70	20	10
Shropshire	0	0	30	90	20	30
Solihull	0	0	30	10	0	0
South Staffordshire	0	10	20	20	10	20
Walsall	10	10	50	10	20	30
Warwickshire	0	10	50	50	0	20
Wolverhampton	0	10	80	10	10	30
Worcestershire	10	10	30	20	20	10
North West	100	160	780	940	160	220
Bury and Rochdale	10	10	40	30	10	10
East Lancashire	10	20	10	40	10	30
Liverpool	20	20	80	50	20	10
Manchester	10	20	150	160	30	30
Morecambe Bay	10	10	10	10	0	0
North Cheshire	0	10	30	140	10	20
North West Lancashire	0	10	130	70	10	10
Salford and Trafford	0	0	50	90	10	10
Sefton	0	10	30	50	10	10
South Cheshire	0	10	30	30	10	10
South Lancashire	0	10	10	30	0	10
St. Helens and Knowsley	10	10	30	40	10	10
Stockport	0	0	20	40	10	10
West Pennine	10	10	70	50	20	50
Wigan and Bolton	10	10	80	60	0	10
Wirral	0	0	20	40	20	10
Eastern	80	80	1,130	720	190	160
Bedfordshire	0	0	40	40	0	10
Cambridgeshire	20	10	350	110	50	30
East and North Hertfordshire	10	0	150	110	30	40
Norfolk	0	20	70	150	20	30
North Essex	10	10	240	80	50	10
South Essex	0	20	30	30	0	20
Suffolk	20	10	50	10	20	0
West Hertfordshire	10	0	190	180	30	20
London	170	160	3,360	2,960	410	470
Barking and Havering	20	10	100	130	30	40
Barnet	0	0	70	30	10	20
Bexley and Greenwich	10	10	110	180	0	20
Brent and Harrow	10	0	110	110	20	30
Bromley	10	10	120	100	0	10
Camden and Islington	20	10	590	280	40	40
Croydon	0	10	70	40	20	10
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow	10	10	380	340	40	60
East London and the City	20	20	80	70	30	40
Enfield and Haringey	0	10	10	60	10	10
Hillingdon	0	0	480	330	0	10
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster	10	10	130	10	50	30
Kingston and Richmond	10	0	490	630	20	0
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham	50	40	200	280	80	60
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth	0	10	320	310	30	60
Redbridge and Waltham Forest	10	10	100	80	30	30

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General Practitioners

Dr. Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many general practitioners, expressed as whole-time equivalents per 100,000 weighted population, there were for (a) each health authority and (b) in total in England for the last two years for which figures are available. [13614]

Mr. Hutton: The information requested is shown in the table.

Unrestricted principals and equivalents (UPEs)⁽⁴¹⁾, estimated whole-time equivalents⁽⁴²⁾ per 1000, weighted population⁽⁴³⁾ by health authority: England 1999 and 2000

Region/HA name	1999	2000
Northern and Yorkshire
Bradford	58.0	57.5
Calderdale and Kirklees	52.2	51.7
County Durham and Darlington Health Commission	49.0	48.4
East Riding and Hull	50.6	50.3
Gateshead and South Tyneside	48.6	49.3
Leeds Healthcare	55.5	55.1
Newcastle and North Tyneside	52.5	53.0
North Cumbria	62.2	61.2
North Yorkshire	61.5	61.8
Northumberland	58.2	57.6
Sunderland	44.9	45.3
Tees	50.0	49.4
Wakefield Healthcare	52.3	53.7
Trent
Barnsley	43.9	44.7
Doncaster	47.4	47.6
Leicestershire	55.9	55.1
Lincolnshire	53.7	52.9
North Derbyshire	51.8	49.8
North Nottinghamshire	50.2	49.7
Nottingham	51.8	52.5
Rotherham	44.7	45.7
Sheffield	56.3	55.7
South Derbyshire	51.9	52.8
South Humber	52.7	52.4
Eastern
Bedfordshire	53.3	53.3
Cambridge and Huntingdon	53.5	55.6
East and North Hertfordshire	53.1	51.3
Norfolk	58.5	58.0
North Essex	53.9	53.6
South Essex	47.3	47.5
Suffolk	57.3	57.5
West Hertfordshire	55.0	54.6
London
Barking and Havering	42.9	44.8
Barnet	53.3	53.4
Bexley and Greenwich	47.2	46.7
Brent and Harrow	54.6	53.7
Bromley	48.5	49.1
Camden and Islington	42.8	43.5
Croydon	49.2	47.8
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow	48.5	47.6
East London and the City	46.8	47.5
Enfield and Haringey	51.3	52.5
Hillingdon	43.2	42.6
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster	28.8	27.9
Kingston and Richmond	49.7	48.3
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham	47.0	48.1
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth	46.8	47.7
Redbridge and Waltham Forest	50.0	49.0
South Eastern
Berkshire	52.8	51.3
Buckinghamshire	54.7	54.8
East Kent	50.1	50.3
East Surrey	49.4	50.1
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove	50.9	50.8
Isle of Wight Health Commission	59.0	58.2
North and Mid Hampshire	56.8	56.1
Northamptonshire	56.4	55.1
Oxfordshire	58.4	57.8
Portsmouth and South-East Hampshire	53.9	54.3
Southampton and South-West Hampshire	55.5	55.6
West Kent	54.8	54.5
West Surrey	49.7	50.4
West Sussex	51.2	51.5
South Western
Avon	55.2	55.0
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	59.4	59.1
Dorset	57.9	57.8
Gloucestershire	60.3	60.3
North and East Devon	60.6	59.8
Somerset	60.5	60.2
South and West Devon	58.1	58.0
Wiltshire	55.9	56.8
West Midlands
Birmingham	54.6	54.2
Coventry	53.6	53.7
Dudley	50.9	49.4
Herefordshire	61.1	60.3
North Staffordshire	47.8	46.9
Sandwell	49.8	49.9
Shropshire	58.2	56.4
Solihull	51.9	53.4
South Staffordshire	53.9	52.9
Walsall	50.6	51.2
Warwickshire	53.7	53.7
Wolverhampton	48.9	51.0
Worcestershire	57.0	56.1
North West
Bury and Rochdale	53.6	53.1
East Lancashire	50.8	49.9
Liverpool	49.1	49.7
Manchester Health	54.3	53.8
Morecambe Bay	56.7	56.3
North Cheshire	48.7	50.2
North West Lancashire	48.7	48.7
Salford and Trafford	51.3	51.2
Sefton	47.9	48.6
South Cheshire	54.0	54.7
South Lancashire	53.1	51.5
St. Helens and Knowsley	49.4	48.5
Stockport Health	55.4	54.4
West Pennine	50.0	48.9
Wigan and Bolton	46.6	47.2
Wirral	56.3	58.2
England total	62.4	52.3

⁽⁴¹⁾ UPEs includes GMS Unrestricted Principals, PMS Contracted GPs and PMS Salaried GPs

⁽⁴²⁾ WTE data have been estimated using the results from the 1992–93 GMP Workload Survey

⁽⁴³⁾ HA population data have been weighted using the GMS cash limited age and needs formula used in 1999–2000 and 2000–01

Notes:

1. Full time = 1.00 wte; three quarter time = 0.69 wte; job share = 0.65 wte; half-time = 0.60 wte

2. Data as at 1 October 1999 and 30 September 2000

3. This is based on information on actual hours worked by GPs with different contractual commitments

Source:

Department of Health General and Personal Medical Services Statistics and ONS Population estimates adjusted for temporary residents, cross boundary flows, rural practices and weighted for GMS CL age and need

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