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Family Planning

Volume 175: debated on Tuesday 26 June 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will give the total number of family planning cases seen by general practitioners in 1982 and in the latest year for which figures are available in Greater London;(2) if he will give the total number of family planning cases treated at family planning clinics in 1982 and in the latest year for which figures are available in each health district in Greater London.

In 1982, a total of 295,383 women received contraceptive services from general practitioners in Greater London compared with 374,560 in 1988.In 1982, the number of people seen in family planning clinics in Greater London was 353,320 compared with 294,629 in 1988–89. The breakdown for each district health authority in Greater London is shown in the following table:

Number of family planning cases seen at family planning clinics
19821988–89
Barnet14,3558,586
Harrow9,5997,699
Hillingdon10,7014,460
Hounslow and Spelthorne14,90312,584
Ealing8,57211,887
Riverside20,69415,224
Parkside22,49018,658
Barking/Havering/Brentwood14,82612,830
Hampstead3,9923,080
Bloomsbury26,91527,393
Islington11,65310,383
City and Hackney10,4536,712
Newham6,3793,936
Tower Hamlets6,6594,953
Enfield10,2533,987
Haringey10,34110,819
Redbridge6,1935,382
Waltham Forest7,0176,049
Dartford and Gravesham5,529960
Bexley9,3015,182
Greenwich8,2565,878

1982

1988–89

Bromley10,5299,316
West Lambeth2,0016,796
Camberwell6,91110,687
Lewisham and North Southwark25,28323,287
Croydon16,78312,132
Kingston and Esher7,6904,613
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton11,7158,210
Wandsworth16,65916,529
Merton and Sutton14,74516,417
Hammersmith special health authority1,9230
GREATER LONDON TOTAL353,320294,629