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Community Nurses

Volume 300: debated on Wednesday 12 November 1997

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will list the spending on community nurses in each health authority in (a) Cornwall and (b) Devon in each year since 1979 for which figures are available; [15659](2) if he will list the average spending on community nurses for English health authorities in each year since 1979 for which figures are available. [15660](3) if he will list the spending on community nurses in England

(a) in cash terms and (b) at 1979 prices for each year since 1979 for which figures are available. [15661]

Information on spending on community health nursing can not be separated centrally from expenditure on all nursing staff. The table shows expenditure on community nursing services of which community nursing staff will form the major part. The information is not available for individual health authorities.

Community nursing services
£ million
YearCash figures1979 prices
1979–80240·0240·0
1980–81328·9278·0
1981–82371·9286·5
1982–83407·9293·5
1983–84432·4297·2
1984–85474·2310·3
Patients aged 75 and over ready for discharge but still occupying a hospital bed
Q4 1994–95Q2 1995–96Q4 1995–96Q1 1996–97Q3 1996–97Q4 1996–97Q1 1997–98
South and West Devon048111116223757
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly92968451657343
North and East Devon1409012916516516566
Average per health authority in England65717779657164