Speech Therapy: Manpower
Health
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many qualified speech therapists there are per head of population in each primary care trust.
Ann Keen (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health; Brentford & Isleworth, Labour)
The following table contains the number of qualified speech therapists per head of population in each primary care trust.
| National health service hospital and community health services: Qualified speech therapists per 100,000 population by strategic health authority area and by primary care trust (PCT) area in England as at 30 September 2008 | ||
| Speech therapists per 100,000 population | ||
| North East Strategic Health Authority | ||
| Newcastle PCT | 5D7 | 5.8 |
| North Tyneside PCT | 5D8 | 20.8 |
| Hartlepool PCT | 5D9 | 28.3 |
| North Tees PCT | 5E1 | 9.4 |
| Darlington PCT | 5J9 | 62.7 |
| Gateshead PCT | 5KF | 16.8 |
| South Tyneside PCT | 5KG | 17.1 |
| Redcar and Cleveland PCT | 5QR | 19.4 |
| Northumberland Care Trust | TAC | 8.4 |
| North West Strategic Health Authority | ||
| Blackburn with Darwen PCT | 5CC | 32.7 |
| Salford PCT | 5F5 | 14.5 |
| Stockport PCT | 5F7 | 11.0 |
| Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT | 5HG | 11.4 |
| Bolton PCT | 5HQ | 14.8 |
| Warrington PCT | 5J2 | 14.8 |
| Knowsley PCT | 5J4 | 17.9 |
| Oldham PCT | 5J5 | 15.9 |
| Bury PCT | SJX | 10.9 |
| Tameside and Glossop PCT | 5LH | 10.8 |
| Cumbria PCT | 5NE | 13.9 |
| North Lancashire PCT | 5NF | 14.5 |
| Central Lancashire PCT | 5NG | 16.1 |
| East Lancashire PCT | 5NH | 9.4 |
| Sefton PCT | 5NJ | 10.2 |
| Wirral PCT | 5NK | 10.7 |
| Liverpool PCT | 5NL | 11.3 |
| Halton and St. Helens PCT | 5NM | 8.4 |
| West Cheshire PCT | 5NN | 13.2 |
| Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT | 5NP | 9.2 |
| Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT | 5NQ | 14.5 |
| Trafford PCT | 5NR | 15.0 |
| Manchester PCT | 5NT | 18.1 |
| Yorkshire and the Humber Strategic Health Authority | ||
| North Lincolnshire PCT | 5EF | 14.8 |
| Rotherham PCT | 5H8 | 11.8 |
| Barnsley PCT | 5JE | 11.5 |
| Leeds PCT | 5N1 | 15.2 |
| Kirklees PCT | 5N2 | 6.2 |
| Wakefield District PCT | 5N3 | 8.7 |
| Sheffield PCT | 5N4 | 16.7 |
| North Yorkshire and York PCT | 5NV | 7.9 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire PCT | 5NW | 18.2 |
| Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT | 5NY | 9.0 |
| East Midlands Strategic Health Authority | ||
| Derbyshire County PCT | 5N6 | 11.3 |
| Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT | 5N8 | 21.1 |
| Lincolnshire Teaching PCT | 5N9 | 6.7 |
| Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT | 5PA | 4.1 |
| Leicester City Teaching PCT | 5PC | 24.8 |
| Northamptonshire Teaching PCT | 5PD | 7.9 |
| West Midlands Strategic Health Authority | ||
| Herefordshire PCT | 5CN | 10.0 |
| South Birmingham PCT | 5M1 | 27.0 |
| Walsall Teaching PCT | 5M3 | 12.5 |
| Coventry Teaching PCT | 5MD | 18.1 |
| Telford and Wrekin PCT | 5MK | 25.9 |
| Wolverhampton City PCT | 5MV | 8.9 |
| Heart Of Birmingham Teaching PCT | 5MX | 0.4 |
| Dudley PCT | 5PE | 22.2 |
| Sandwell PCT | 5PF | 11.8 |
| Birmingham East and North PCT | 5PG | 1.5 |
| North Staffordshire PCT | 5PH | 19.8 |
| South Staffordshire PCT | 5PK | 10.0 |
| Worcestershire PCT | 5PL | 9.1 |
| Warwickshire PCT | 5PM | 13.9 |
| Solihull Care Trust | TAM | 8.7 |
| East of England Strategic Health Authority | ||
| South East Essex PCT | 5P1 | 3.9 |
| Bedfordshire PCT | 5P2 | 11.0 |
| East and North Hertfordshire PCT | 5P3 | 12.6 |
| West Hertfordshire PCT | 5P4 | 11.1 |
| Peterborough PCT | 5PN | 17.7 |
| Cambridgeshire PCT | 5PP | 12.4 |
| Norfolk PCT | 5PQ | 11.8 |
| Great Yarmouth and Waveny Teaching PCT | 5PR | 12.7 |
| Suffolk PCT | 5PT | 9.7 |
| West Essex PCT | 5PV | 9.0 |
| North East Essex PCT | 5PW | 9.1 |
| Mid Essex PCT | 5PX | 8.7 |
| South West Essex Teaching PCT | 5PY | 6.5 |
| London Strategic Health Authority | ||
| Havering PCT | 5A4 | 1.7 |
| Kingston PCT | SA5 | 16.9 |
| Bromley PCT | 5A7 | 12.2 |
| Greenwich Teaching PCT | 5A8 | 18.8 |
| Barnet PCT | SA9 | 14.8 |
| Hillingdon PCT | 5AT | 9.9 |
| Enfield PCT | 5C1 | 10.4 |
| Barking and Dagenham PCT | 5C2 | 19.0 |
| City and Hackney PCT | 5C3 | 17.7 |
| Tower Hamlets PCT | 5C4 | 21.3 |
| Newham PCT | 5C5 | 15.6 |
| Haringey Teaching PCT | 5C9 | 5.3 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham PCT | 5H1 | 20.3 |
| Ealing PCT | 5HX | 13.6 |
| Hounslow PCT | 5HY | 13.5 |
| Brent Teaching PCT | 5K5 | 8.1 |
| Harrow PCT | 5K6 | 0.5 |
| Camden PCT | 5K7 | 2.1 |
| Islington PCT | 5K8 | 50.8 |
| Croydon PCT | 5K9 | 14.9 |
| Kensington and Chelsea PCT | 5LA | 17.7 |
| Westminster PCT | 5LC | 16.1 |
| Lambeth PCT | 5LD | 12.0 |
| Southwark PCT | 5LE | 15.5 |
| Lewisham PCT | 5LF | 15.3 |
| Wandsworth PCT | 5LG | 19.7 |
| Richmond and Twickenham PCT | SM6 | 9.4 |
| Sutton and Merton PCT | 5M7 | 12.6 |
| Redbridge PCT | 5NA | 10.1 |
| Waltham Forest PCT | 5NC | 22.9 |
| Bexley Care Trust | TAK | 10.7 |
| South East Coast Strategic Health Authority | ||
| Medway PCT | 5L3 | 24.8 |
| Surrey PCT | 5P5 | 11.4 |
| West Sussex Teaching PCT | 5P6 | 11.8 |
| East Sussex Downs and Weald PCT | 5P7 | 9.6 |
| Hastings and Rother PCT | 5P8 | 13.5 |
| West Kent PCT | 5P9 | 5.6 |
| Eastern and Coastal Kent Teaching PCT | 5QA | 9.2 |
| South Central Strategic Health Authority | ||
| Milton Keynes PCT | 5CQ | 13.5 |
| Portsmouth City Teaching PCT | 5FE | 30.0 |
| Southampton City PCT | 5L1 | 18.8 |
| Hampshire PCT | 5QC | 2.0 |
| Buckinghamshire PCT | 5QD | 13.8 |
| Oxfordshire PCT | 5QE | 12.7 |
| Berkshire West PCT | 5QF | 14.6 |
| Berkshire East Teaching PCT | 5QG | 9.2 |
| Isle of Wight Healthcare PCT | 5QT | 5.7 |
| South West Strategic Health Authority | ||
| South Gloucestershire PCT | 5A3 | 1.2 |
| Plymouth Teaching PCT | 5F1 | 26.1 |
| Bath and North East Somerset PCT | 5FL | 20.5 |
| Swindon PCT | 5K3 | 19.2 |
| North Somerset PCT | 5M8 | 0.5 |
| Gloucestershire PCT | 5QH | 9.8 |
| Bristol Teaching PCT | 5QJ | 1.7 |
| Wiltshire PCT | 5QK | 6.8 |
| Somerset PCT | 5QL | 10.7 |
| Bournemouth and Poole PCT | 5QN | 23.8 |
| Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT | 5QP | 10.1 |
| Devon PCT | 5QQ | 6.8 |
| Notes: 1. Figures are based on headcount qualified speech and language therapist figures. 2. Figures for individual PCTs do not include qualified speech and language therapists employed by NHS trusts. Nationally 20 per cent. of such staff are employed by trusts. 3. Figures are rounded to one decimal place. Sources: The NHS Information Centre for health and social care Non-Medical Workforce census. Primary Care Organisation Mid Year Final Population Estimates 2001 Population Census Based. Office of National Statistics Population Estimates. | ||