Sources:

(a) Annual accounts of the named health authorities.

(b) Mid-year estimates of resident populations 1982 to 1988 (Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys).

Notes:

1. Hospital and community health services (HCHS) covers total expenditure including that on hospital, community health and where applicable patient transport (i.e. ambulance), blood transfusion and other services. District capital expenditure and expenditure on family practitioner services is excluded.

2. The table also excludes all revenue and capital expenditure incurred by the Yorkshire and Trent regional health authorities on behalf of their regions as a whole. Such revenue expenditure on health and community health services was equivalent to about £7 and 14 per head for the Yorkshire and Trent regions respectively in 1988–89.

3. Significant variations in expenditure figures per head of population at district level arise principally because:

(i) people travel across district boundaries for treatment and sub-regional resource allocations reflect the pattern of service provision locally;

(ii) the population figures used make no allowance for people resident in one district who receive treatment in another or for the differences in morbidity and age/sex structure of particular populations.