Health Authorities

Mr. Bowis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the total funding for each health authority for each of the last 11 years; and what was the number of patients treated by each authority over the same period.

[holding answer 29 January 1991]: The following tables show the total revenue expenditure and the number of in-patients treated by each health region and the special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals for the years 1979–80 to 1989–90.Equivalent information for each district health authority in England could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Number of inpatients treated—Regional totals—1979 to 1990
	Finished hospital stays (discharges and deaths)										Finished consultant episodes
Regional health authority	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987–88	1988–89	1988–89	1989–90
Northern	368,578	393,788	395,694	376,067	409,115	420,080	433,131	441,095	462,766	461,033	496,617	504,743
Yorkshire	433,783	456,885	465,514	454,013	490,644	499,895	517,543	525,296	549,847	551,458	607,203	607,332
Trent	464,917	497,306	511,888	505,247	543,221	557,930	578,370	592,398	612,890	626,102	678,061	698,776
East Anglia	201,867	216,878	219,585	213,297	229,580	238,332	250,343	253,483	264,117	269,637	301,631	316,710
North West Thames	403,264	412,723	418,144	394,415	408,474	415,559	418,753	419,008	421,582	416,153	462,539	473,930
North East Thames	455,851	473,469	474,758	512,655	526,398	534,760	541,080	530,372	527,585	521,291	588,983	606,278
South East Thames	438,889	453,149	462,239	461,394	477,283	487,772	501,557	495,246	504,666	487,815	546,047	541,962
South West Thames	312,264	320,149	324,683	315,210	329,334	338,587	344,430	347,089	351,932	344,259	394,860	387,551
Wessex	302,772	318,509	322,017	320,936	332,378	345,528	357,311	366,421	389,492	391,376	427,929	441,658
Oxford	251,898	264,990	269,685	266,304	276,523	284,583	297,524	299,270	300,416	296,433	329,661	344,782
South Western	338,890	357,966	365,849	370,348	385,293	399,018	408,004	417,443	443,179	451,586	515,394	521,726
West Midlands	547,773	575,105	582,892	591,061	619,743	644,202	666,217	673,375	708,225	689,457	790,913	810,513
Mersey	282,629	297,465	299,349	293,928	312,615	322,138	330,990	336,944	345,652	347,893	378,984	397,085
North Western	509,049	541,776	554,967	553,727	585,667	597,756	617,628	624,678	644,540	640,548	717,666	728,297
SHA's	87,696	89,843	92,613	91,032	92,317	91,405	90,931	91,671	92,465	90,941	98,960	95,283
England	5,400,120	5,670,001	5,759,877	5,719,634	6,018,585	6,177,545	6,353,812	6,413,789	6,619,354	6,585,982	7,335,448	7,476,626

Sources:

1. Annual accounts of regional and district health authorities in England together with those of the special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals. (Predecessor authorities for the years prior to 1982–83).

2. Statistical returns submitted to the Department (SM12).

Notes:

1. Revenue expenditure on HCHS covers that on all services provided by the health authorities concerned including hospital, community health, patient transport (ie ambulance), blood transfusion and other services. Capital expenditure and expenditure on family practitioner services (now family health services) is excluded. However, the expenditure figures for all regions in the years prior to 1985–86 include small elements for the administrative expenses of family practitioner committees which were not separately identified.

2. Following the reports of the steering group on NHS information (the Körner committee) a new definition "finished consultant episode" was introduced to cover both the former in-patient and day case treatment categories. For 1988–89 information was collected under both the new and previous bases and is shown in the table accordingly.

Volume 186: debated on Monday 25 February 1991