Health written question – answered at on 10 May 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the change in numbers of allied health professional posts on speech and language therapy services.
The recently published September 2006 national health service workforce census showed there were a headcount of 6,623 speech and language therapists, an increase of 1,752 or 36 per cent. since 1997.
There was also a full-time equivalent increase in the number of speech and language therapists of 87 or 1.7 per cent. in 2006 from the previous year.
Patients requiring NHS speech and language therapy services will benefit from these work force increases.
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