To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish a table showing the expenditure per head in each national health service region for the latest available period using prescribing analyses and costs data for general practitioner prescribed drug treatment of asthma and related conditions.
The information requested is shown in the table.
Cost (thousands) £
| List size
| Cost per head £
| |
| Northern RHA | 4,376,934 | 3,179,270 | 1·38 |
| Yorkshire RHA | 4,626,018 | 3,783,074 | 1·22 |
| Trent RHA | 5,989,421 | 4,878,399 | 1·23 |
| East Anglia RHA | 2,432,996 | 2,081,579 | 1·17 |
| North West Thames RHA | 3,787,033 | 4,111,169 | 0·92 |
| North East Thames RHA | 3,922,551 | 4,278,.439 | 0·92 |
| South East Thames RHA | 3,926,892 | 4,046,572 | 0·97 |
| South West Thames RHA | 3,105,008 | 3,234,806 | 0·96 |
| Wessex RHA | 3,232,522 | 3,011,032 | 1·07 |
| Oxford RHA | 3,023,177 | 2,665,838 | 1·13 |
| South Western RHA | 4,230,747 | 3,590,948 | 1·18 |
| West Midlands RHA | 7,190,335 | 5,472,767 | 1·31 |
| Mersey RHA | 3,223,910 | 2,513,942 | 1·28 |
| North Western RHA | 5,891,977 | 4,154,172 | 1·42 |
Note: For PACT purposes every FHSA within each region is permanently allocated to one of three quarterly processing cycles. The information provided is based on data relating to the following PACT periods:
- January 1991 to March 1991
- February 1991 to April 1991
- March 1991 to May 1991