25 July 2006 : Column 1252W—continued
Hugh Bayley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent (a) medical consultants, (b) other medical staff, (c) nurses, (d) other professional staff, (e) administrative and clerical staff and (f) auxiliary staff were employed by York NHS Trust in all areas excluding those transferred to Selby and York Primary Care Trust in each year since 1996-97. [87135]
Mr. Ivan Lewis:
The information has been set out in the table.
| NHS hospital and community health services: Medical and dental and non-medical staff in York Hospitals NHS Trust by specified staff groups data as at 30 September each year full time equivalent |
| | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
|
York Hospitals NHS Trust
|
3,660
|
3,504
|
3,517
|
3,732
|
3,224
|
2,842
|
3,111
|
3,247
|
3,302
|
| | | | | | | | | | |
|
All HCHS medical and dental staff
|
261
|
274
|
283
|
281
|
258
|
237
|
294
|
320
|
344
|
|
Consultant
|
102
|
98
|
110
|
109
|
120
|
113
|
119
|
131
|
149
|
|
Other grades
|
159
|
176
|
172
|
171
|
138
|
124
|
174
|
189
|
195
|
| | | | | | | | | | |
|
All non-medical staff
|
3,399
|
3,230
|
3,234
|
3,451
|
2,967
|
2,605
|
2,817
|
2,927
|
2,958
|
|
Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff
|
1,362
|
1,235
|
1,268
|
1,375
|
1,132
|
915
|
948
|
990
|
1,023
|
|
Other professionally qualified clinical staff
|
409
|
431
|
438
|
465
|
344
|
355
|
387
|
402
|
407
|
|
Central functions
|
166
|
155
|
190
|
208
|
171
|
183
|
196
|
215
|
202
|
|
Other staff
|
1,463
|
1,408
|
1,338
|
1,403
|
1,319
|
1,153
|
1,286
|
1,319
|
1,327
|
Sources:
1. The Information Centre for health and social care Medical and Dental Workforce Census
2. The Information Centre for health and social care Non-Medical Workforce Census
|
Hugh Bayley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting times for (a) elective in-patient admissions and (b) first out-patient appointments were in each specialty at York NHS trust in each year since 1996-97. [87136]
Andy Burnham:
The information requested is in the following tables.
| Out-patient waiting times for York Health Services Trust 1997 to 2006, median waiting time for first out-patient appointment from a general practitioner referral to a consultant |
| Weeks |
| Speciality |
| Quarter ending March | Anaesthetics | Dermatology | General surgery | Urology | Trauma and orthopaedics | Ear, nose and throat |
|
1997
|
10.2
|
4.5
|
3.9
|
10.1
|
11.1
|
6.3
|
|
1998
|
n/a
|
6.7
|
5.9
|
11.9
|
10.6
|
8.2
|
|
1999
|
9.9
|
9.2
|
7.6
|
16.5
|
13.0
|
9.5
|
|
2000
|
11.8
|
8.0
|
7.3
|
13.1
|
14.3
|
11.7
|
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25 July 2006 : Column 1254W
|
2001
|
8.7
|
7.2
|
3.9
|
7.8
|
13.0
|
7.0
|
|
2002
|
9.8
|
10.6
|
3.5
|
7.8
|
10.1
|
8.8
|
|
2003
|
8.9
|
10.7
|
4.8
|
7.9
|
11.6
|
9.6
|
|
2004
|
12.8
|
7.9
|
5.5
|
9.9
|
7.8
|
11.7
|
|
2005
|
17.9
|
7.4
|
6.3
|
11.0
|
8.8
|
11.9
|
|
2006
|
8.2
|
6.2
|
5.9
|
7.5
|
6.7
|
7.0
|
| Weeks |
| Speciality |
| | General medicine | Genito-urinary medicine | Oral surgery | Geriatric medicine | Neurology | Obstetrics and gynaecology (obstetrics A/N) |
|
1997
|
8.0
|
n/a
|
7.2
|
n/a
|
12.4
|
3.3
|
|
1998
|
8.4
|
n/a
|
4.1
|
n/a
|
11.1
|
3.3
|
|
1999
|
9.6
|
n/a
|
3.8
|
3.5
|
18.4
|
5.8
|
|
2000
|
9.7
|
n/a
|
5.0
|
3.8
|
13.2
|
5.5
|
|
2001
|
9.2
|
n/a
|
4.2
|
5.7
|
19.8
|
6.4
|
|
2002
|
8.6
|
2.0
|
7.0
|
5.6
|
30.3
|
6.3
|
|
2003
|
8.2
|
2.0
|
3.8
|
6.5
|
13.4
|
6.6
|
|
2004
|
9.2
|
2.0
|
6.1
|
3.8
|
14.3
|
6.7
|
|
2005
|
7.7
|
2.0
|
7.5
|
3.3
|
11.5
|
6.4
|
|
2006
|
6.4
|
2.0
|
6.8
|
3.5
|
7.5
|
n/a
|
| Weeks |
| Speciality |
| | Obstetrics and gynaecology (gynaecology) | Ophthalmology | Orthodontics | Paediatrics | Rheumatology | Total |
|
1997
|
3.6
|
9.3
|
8.4
|
7.1
|
7.8
|
5.9
|
|
1998
|
4.3
|
9.9
|
11.6
|
8.4
|
7.3
|
6.6
|
|
1999
|
7.7
|
10.6
|
15.8
|
5.9
|
8.4
|
8.4
|
|
2000
|
8.3
|
11.5
|
17.6
|
7.5
|
5.5
|
8.9
|
|
2001
|
3.6
|
8.8
|
10.4
|
6.1
|
6.0
|
6.9
|
|
2002
|
3.7
|
7.9
|
11.3
|
6.5
|
6.8
|
6.1
|
|
2003
|
3.9
|
6.9
|
15.5
|
6.8
|
8.5
|
6.4
|
|
2004
|
5.0
|
7.8
|
15.6
|
5.9
|
9.9
|
6.4
|
|
2005
|
3.6
|
6.8
|
17.2
|
6.0
|
8.3
|
6.4
|
|
2006
|
3.8
|
4.8
|
9.9
|
7.2
|
7.9
|
5.4
|
Note:
Only includes specialties with over 100 patients
Source:
Department of Health QM08
|
