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Mr. Cousins
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the cost per head in each health region of (a) in-patient treatments of mental illness, (b) out-patient and
| Expenditure per head per annum of resident population | ||||
| Region | Hospital services—psychiatric other than mental handicap | General Practitioner | ||
| Patients using a bed £ | Outpatients £ | Day care £ | prescribing £ | |
| Northern | 17·98 | 1·21 | 1·34 | 1·85 |
| Yorkshire | 15·77 | 1·03 | 1·38 | 1·80 |
| Trent | 16·06 | 0·81 | 1·17 | 1·36 |
| East Anglian | 15·81 | 1·20 | 1·39 | 1·17 |
| North West Thames | 21·85 | 1·54 | 1·02 | 1·27 |
| North East Thames | 20·70 | 2·03 | 1·39 | 1·21 |
| South East Thames | 18·45 | 0·80 | 1·19 | 1·33 |
| South West Thames | 20·50 | 1·04 | 1·10 | 1·40 |
| Wessex | 15·04 | 0·36 | 1·14 | 1·43 |
| Oxford | 11·47 | 0·90 | 1·23 | 1·03 |
| South Western | 14·86 | 0·62 | 1·14 | 1·55 |
| West Midlands | 14·69 | 0·87 | 1·02 | 1·42 |
| Mersey | 22·21 | 0·93 | 1·23 | 1·69 |
| North Western | 18·61 | 1·17 | 1·94 | 1·82 |
Sources:
(a) Hospital services—1988–89 financial returns submitted to the Department by district health authorities in England.
(b) General Practitioner prescribing—prescription cost analysis by the Department for 1989 (calendar year).
(c) Mid year estimates of resident populations 1988—Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys.
day care treatment of mental illness and (c) general practitioner-prescribed prescription costs for treatments of stress, anxiety and depression.
Mr. Dorrell
[holding answer 11 December 1990]: The latest available expenditure data are shown in the table.