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Headcount and percentage headcount
		2002	2003	2004	2005	1996-2005	1996-2005
London GOR total		3,601	3,981	3,950	4,338	1,095	33.8
North Central London	Q05	628	638	689	739	270	57.6
North East London	Q06	724	871	927	916	170	22.8
North West London	Q04	842	842	844	1,001	226	29.2
South East London	Q07	769	988	861	1,003	330	49.0
South West London	Q08	638	642	629	679	99	17.1

Qualified physiotherapy staff
Headcount and percentage headcount
		1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
London GOR total		1,989	1,985	2,071	2,179	2,296	2,317
North Central London	Q05	426	443	431	453	459	476
North East London	Q06	337	318	334	352	366	346
North West London	Q04	468	492	491	505	568	556
South East London	Q07	396	394	427	431	440	457
South West London	Q08	362	338	388	438	463	482

		2002	2003	2004	2005	1996-2005	1996-2005
London GOR total		2,328	2,486	2,630	2,847	858	43.1
North Central London	Q05	471	510	524	566	140	32.9
North East London	Q06	390	421	464	516	179	53.1
North West London	Q04	565	597	614	672	204	43.6
South East London	Q07	491	516	553	585	189	47.7
South West London	Q08	411	442	475	508	146	40.3

Hotel, property and estates support staff
Headcount and percentage headcount
		1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
London GOR total6		4,651	4,378	3,727	3,777	3,431	3,470
North Central London	Q05	953	1,027	721	766	804	720
North East London	Q06	782	624	595	769	709	750
North West London	Q04	432	434	443	327	395	405
South East London	Q07	1,701	1,540	1,462	1,380	1,023	1,044
South West London	Q08	740	714	471	509	495	547

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Headcount and percentage headcount
		2002	2003	2004	2005	Change 1996-2005	Percentage change 1996-2005
London GOR total( 6)		3,393	3,576	3,907	4,071	-580	-12.5
North Central London	Q05	755	808	1,010	1,048	95	10.0
North East London	Q06	786	854	898	1,106	324	41.4
North West London	Q04	353	402	466	463	31	7.2
South East London	Q07	1,002	1,032	1,034	1,024	-677	-39.8
South West London	Q08	497	480	499	428	-312	-42.2
(1) Excludes medical hospital practitioners and medical clinical assistants, most of whom are general practitioners (GPs) working part time in hospitals. (2) General medical practitioners (excluding retainers) includes contracted GPs, GMS others, PMS others and GP registrars. Prior to September 2004 this group included CMS unrestricted principals, personal medical services (PMS) contracted GPs, PMS salaried GPs, restricted principals, assistants, GP registrars, salaried doctors (Para 52 SFA), PMS other, flexible career scheme GPs and GP (3) Practice nurse data as at October 1996. (4) Includes estimated data for Buckinghamshire. (5) Headcount practice nurse figures are estimated for these years. (6) London GOR includes a small number of staff from the London Ambulance Service who cannot be attributed to a specific strategic health authority area. Notes: GP retainers were first collected in 1999 and have been omitted for comparability purposes. All data as at 30 September except GP data for 1996-1999 as at 1 October. Source: The Information Centre for health and social care non-medical workforce census. The Information Centre for health and social care general and personal medical services statistics. The Information Centre for health and social care medical and dental workforce census.

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