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Chlamydia

Volume 264: debated on Monday 16 October 1995

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health what information his Department has concerning the

Expenditure on mental health services 1978–79 to 1992–931
YearHospital expenditure £ millionPercentage change year on yearCommunity expenditure2 3£ millionPercentage change year on year3Health authority expenditure £ millionPercentage change year on year
1978–79489.820.7489.8
1979–80507.93.7507.93.7
1980–81560.910.4560.910.4
1981–82567.91.2567.91.2
1982–83564.6-0.6564.6-0.6
1983–84568.50.7568.50.6
1984–85577.01.5577.01.5
1985–86572.9-0.7572.9-0.7
1986–87593.23.528.6593.23.5
1987–88638.27.629.32.4638.27.6
1988–89659.83.487.3715.13
1989–90647.5-1.9103.818.9713.6-0.2
1990–91636.4-1.7113.99.7709.6-0.6
1991–92739.94140.44817.74
1992–93754.01.9165.918.2845.03.3
1 All figures are expressed at 1978–79 prices. The mental health expenditure is made up of the following:
(a) Hospital: in-patient and out-patient expenditure—the consultant specialities of mental health, child and adolescent psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, psychotherapy and old age psychiatry, day patient expenditure—in the categories mental health (alcoholism, drug abuse, psychogeriatrics and general), child and adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry.
(b) Community: community mental health nursing expenditure and local authority personal social services for people with mental health problems.
(c) Health authority: hospital expenditure and community mental health nursing expenditure.
2 Local authority personal social services data are not available for the years 1979–80 to 1985–86.
3 Figures for 1978–79, 1986–87 and 1987–88 are local authority personal social services expenditure only. The percentage change figure for 1987–88 on 1986–87 reflects this. Community mental health nursing expenditure was not collected separately in years before 1988–89. It was included with other community expenditure.
4 Figures for 1991–92 cannot be compared with those for 1990–91 for the following reasons:
(a) The introduction of the NHS reforms in 1991–92 and changes to accountancy practices; and
(b) The revision of the local authority personal social services expenditure return meaning that information on client group spend was provided directly by local authorities rather than being apportioned by the Department of Health.

Note:

1. Increases in local authority personal social services expenditure data in 1992–93 are, in part, due to refinement of the basis for Department of Health apportionment.

incidence of chlamydia; and what measures his Department is taking to combat the spread of infection among the population with particular reference to women. [36952]

Information about chlamydia is published in the statistical bulletin entitled "Sexually Transmitted Diseases, England 1994", copies of which are available in the Library. The Health Education Authority and other organisations issue materials on sexually transmitted diseases, including chlamydia, to help people understand what bacterial and viral infections exist and how they should be treated. People who think they may have been at risk can make use of the network of open-access genito-urinary medicine clinics which offer confidential advice and treatment. In addition, the Department plans to set up, in parallel with on-going research, an expert group to consider the practical implications that might arise if any screening programme for chlamydia was to be introduced for different population groups and in different settings.