Written question asked by Lorna Fitzsimons (Labour) on Tuesday, 8 June 2004, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 16 June 2004. It was answered by Melanie Johnson (Labour) on Wednesday, 16 June 2004 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS (a) therapists and (b) scientists were located in Rochdale in each of the last seven years. - Inc table.

Answer: Mrs. Fitzsimons: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS (a) therapists and (b) scientists were located in Rochdale in each of the last seven years. [178513] Miss Melanie Johnson: The information is not available in the format requested. The table shows the number of qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical staff. NHS hospital and community health services: Qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical staff in the Greater Manchester Strategic Health Authority area as at 30 September each specified year Headcount _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Bury and Rochdale Health 1 1 11 12 10 1-- 1-- Authority Bury Health Care NHS Trust 216 225 230 242 267 1-- 1-- North Manchester Healthcare 286 267 272 275 256 1-- 1-- NHS Trust Oldham NHS Trust 347 346 360 393 417 1-- 1-- Rochdale Health Care NHS 244 249 243 259 308 1-- 1-- Trust Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 900 853 Trust Rochdale PCT 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 137 144 Pennine Care NHS Trust 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 146 187 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Not applicable Source: Department of Health Non-Medical Workforce Census

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