Health Authorities (Finance)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health ( 1) if he will publish for each health authority in Humberside and Yorkshire (a) the net income from private patients and clinics and (b) the amounts written off as bad debts in each year since 1979;(2) if he will publish for each Yorkshire health authority

(a) the net income from private patients and clinics and (b) the amounts written off as bad debts in each year since 1979.

Following are figures recorded in the 1985–86 to 1988–89 annual accounts of the district health authorities providing health services in Yorkshire and Humberside. The income shown arises from charges to private patients under sections 65 and 66 of the National Health Service Act 1977 and is recorded under each heading net of sums written off in each financial year (which sometimes include amounts due from earlier years). Separate write-off figures for income due under sections 65 and 66 were not collected centrally.

Income from private patients (under Sections 65 and 66 of the National Health Service Act 1977) and related losses
	1985–86				1986–87
	Income		Amounts written off		Income		Amounts written off
	In-patients (Section 65)	Out-patients (Section 66)	In-patients (Section 65)	Out-patients (Section 66)	In-patients (Section 65)	Out-patients (Section 66)	In-patients (Section 65)	Out-patients (Section 66)
	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£
District health authorities
Hull	112,339	30,434	0	0	81,385	34,250	0	0
East Yorkshire	95,924	16,011	0	0	62,261	14,248	2,685	33
Grimsby	109,282	49,598	485	1,287	98,694	54,149	2,019	1,969
Scunthorpe	119,830	22,889	440	81	92,448	27,063	427	379
Northallerton	57,741	10,153	0	34	64,384	12,081	0	25
York	99,517	53,182	0	86	132,768	47,794	180	157
Scarborough	14,149	6,029	0	12	9,588	10,309	0	157
Harrogate	209,620	16,717	0	67	175,271	19,753	790	190
Bradford	110,416	54,209	175	294	96,515	51,423	583	159
Airedale	303,969	28,730	237	2,098	370,736	36,782	164	117
Calderdale	239,727	26,808	0	394	94,241	22,280	0	3,721
Huddersfield	71,107	24,604	0	622	9,745	28,263	31	208
Dewsbury	39,844	26,939	0	228	27,550	21,310	0	0
Leeds Western	1,012,402	95,536	0	0	996,810	108,550	0	0
Leeds Eastern	275,225	43,550	0	0	220,309	55,795	2,151	0
Wakefield	53,895	17,286	6	960	52,634	20,316	0	197
Pontefract	14,969	10,400	0	170	16,035	10,973	258	60
Barnsley	41,703	16,799	0	16	30,465	17,481	0	112
Doncaster	39,260	22,679	0	0	43,502	27,307	0	257
Rotherham	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sheffield	212,775	76,659	718	320	208,298	75,013	2,681	885

	1987–88				1988–89
	Income		Amounts written off		Income		Amounts written off
	In-patients (Section 65)	Out-patients (Section 66)	In-patients (Section 65)	Out-patients (Section 66)	In-patients (Section 65)	Out-patients (Section 66)	In-patients (Section 65)	Out-patients (Section 66)
	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£
District health authorities
Hull	120,678	37,096	1	137	128,204	41,128	48	528
East Yorkshire	64,148	11,915	84	0	63,423	9,326	0	144
Grimsby	75,777	42,578	2,769	1,644	52,457	46,376	0	1,175
Scunthorpe	110,150	37,073	1,014	247	194,781	37,496	0	74
Northallerton	76,737	12,176	1	73	97,298	11,690	0	14
York	202,275	41,305	645	257	77,257	32,977	167	86
Scarborough	10,304	9,707	0	246	6,161	10,526	0	90
Harrogate	186,485	19,084	956	183	242,649	23,584	0	189
Bradford	55,456	61,304	655	508	58,011	61,187	1,892	0
Airedale	341,600	48,814	4,420	963	432,680	68,115	0	2,115
Calderdale	43,396	19,269	620	656	21,057	15,403	3,261	124
Huddersfield	16,354	23,185	680	358	12,152	30,556	0	0
Dewsbury	18,697	15,318	0	0	10,549	11,087	0	0
Leeds Western	1,128,573	143,212	2,290	466	1,249,793	190,012	2,563	493
Leeds Eastern	301,276	52,699	2,055	446	348,600	87,460	1,634	787
Wakefield	50,935	21,146	8,366	658	53,102	22,865	147	377
Pontefract	12,267	14,356	0	156	13,527	7,157	0	106
Barnsley	32,344	18,807	0	7	39,065	22,343	0	138
Doncaster	33,525	27,861	0	226	38,038	29,531	43	56
Rotherham	0	3,872	0	0	0	4,708	0	0
Sheffield	222,972	70,923	11,923	3,260	313,542	131,734	3,520	269

Notes to the table:

1. The table includes all the district health authorities comprising the Yorkshire health region with the addition of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield health authorities which form part of the region.

2. The table excludes income due under Section 58 of the NHS Act 1977 (which arises mainly from services provided to private health care establishments) and which for the authorities shown totalled some £236,800 in 1988–89. Separate write-off figures for this category of income are not collected centrally.

Volume 169: debated on Tuesday 20 March 1990