To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list all the statistical indicators collected arid maintained by the Welsh Office in relation to family practitioner services and general practice in Wales.
A set of FPS service indicators, which embraces currently the items listed as follows, has been developed and is maintained by the Welsh Office and the Department of Health. This is supplied to family practitioner committees in Wales and is used by them and by the Department for management purposes. A review of the range and content of the indicators is in progress.A selection of the current set of FPS service indicators is published in "Key Statistical Indicators for National Health Services Management in Wales", No. 8, 1989, a copy of which is in the Library.
FPS Service Indicators
- Prescriptions per 10,000 OPCS population, pharmacists and dispensing doctor
- FPC staff per 10,000 OPCS population
- FPC patient registration data inflation
- Total FPS payments, £000s per 10,000 registered population
- FPC administration costs, £000s per 10,000 OPCS population
- Registration transactions as a percentage of registered population
- Expenditure on GMS per 10,000 registered population
- GMPs per 10,000 patients on their lists
- Turnover of GMPs per GMP
- Percentage of GMPs with list sizes under 1,000
- Percentage of GMPs with list sizes over 2,500
- Percentage of GMPs under 65 practising single handed
- Percentage of GMPs aged 65+
- Dispensing doctors as a percentage of GMPs
- Dispensing patients as a percentage of registered population
- Whole time equivalent ancillary staff per partnership
- Whole time equivalent ancillary staff per practitioner
- Practice nurses per partnership
- Practice nurses per practitioner
- Percentage of GMPs with consent to use a deputising service
- Percentage of night visits made by deputising services
- Night fees for GMPs, £000s per 10,000 registered population
- Vaccination and immunisation fees, £000s per 10,000 registered population
- Cervical cytology fees, £000s per 10,000 females aged 35–64
- Cervical cytology recalls per 10,000 females aged 20–64
- Ordinary contraceptive claims per 10,000 females aged 15–49
- IUD claims per 10,000 females aged 15–49
- Maternity medical services claims for full care per 100 births
- Maternity medical services claims for some care per 100 births
- Perinatal mortality rate
- Formal allocations to GMPs per 10,000 registered population
- Formal complaints to medical services committee per GMP
- Informal complaints involving a conciliator per GMP
- Other informal written complaints per GMP
- Expenditure on GDS per 10,000 registered population
- Dentists per 10,000 OPCS population
- Turnover in dentists per dentist
- Courses of dental treatment per 10,000 OPCS population
- Courses of dental treatment per 10,000 OPCS population < 16
- Courses of treatment per dentist
- Extractions per 1,000 courses, persons < 16
- Extractions per 1,000 courses, persons 16+
- Fillings per 1,000 courses, persons < 16
- Sessions per 10,000 OPCS population under emergency dental service
- Recall fees per 10,000 OPCS population
- Formal complaints to dental services committee per dentist
- Informal written complaints per dentist
- Expenditure on pharmaceutical service per 10,000 registered population
- Pharmacies per 10,000 OPCS population
- Net ingredient cost, £000s per 10,000 OPCS population (pharmacies)
- Prescriptions dispensed per 10,000 OPCS population (pharmacies)
- Net ingredient cost, £000s per 10,000 OPCS population (dispensing doctors)
- Prescriptions dispensed per 10,000 OPCS population (dispensing doctors)
- Exemption certificates per 10,000 non-age-exempt population
- Prepayment certificates per 10,000 non-age-exempt population
- Expenditure on general ophthalmic service per 10,000 registered population
- Opticians per 10,000 OPCS population
- Sight tests per 10,000 OPCS population