§ Lord BYERSasked Her Majesty's Government:
What percentage of the financial budget of the Buckinghamshire Area Health Authority is allocated to the 1955WA cost of running and maintaining the National Spinal Injuries Unit at Stoke Mandeville.
§ The PARLIAMENTARY UNDERSECRETARY of STATE, DEPARTMENT of HEALTH and SOCIAL SECURITY (Lord Wells-Pestell)The National Spinal Injuries Centre, comprising 156 beds, is an integral part of Stoke Mandeville Hospital, which has 758 beds. Separate costs for the centre are not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate expense. However, 25.4 per cent. of the Area Health Authority's revenue expenditure and 19.8 per cent. of the authority's capital expenditure was devoted to running and maintaining Stoke Mandeville Hospital in the year ending 31st March 1978. (These figures do not include the cost of Family Practitioner Services).
§ Lord BYERSasked Her Majesty's Government:
What percentage of the financial budget of the Oxfordshire Regional Health Authority is allocated to the cost of running and maintaining the National Spinal Injuries Unit at Stoke Mandeville.
§ Lord WELLS-PESTELLThe National Spinal Injuries Centre, comprising 156 beds, is an integral part of Stoke Mandeville Hospital, which has 758 beds. Separate costs for the centre are not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate expense. However, 5 per cent. of the Oxford Regional Health Authority's total revenue expenditure and 4.14 per cent. of the authority's capital expenditure was devoted to running and maintaining Stoke Mandeville Hospital in the year ending 31st March 1978. (These figures do not take account of the cost of Family Practitioner Services).
§ Lord BYERSasked Her Majesty's Government:
What percentage of the total National Health Service budget for the country is allocated to the cost of running and maintaining the National Spinal Injuries Unit at Stoke Mandeville.
§ Lord WELLS-PESTELLThe National Spinal Injuries Centre, comprising 156 beds, is an integral part of the Stoke1956WA Mandeville Hospital, which has 758 beds. Separate costs for the centre are not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate expense. However, 0.2 per cent. of the revenue expenditure and 0.13 per cent. of the capital expenditure of the National Health Service in England was devoted to running and maintaining Stoke Mandeville Hospital. (These figures do not include the costs of the Family Practitioner Services).
§ Lord BYERSasked Her Majesty's Government:
If they will list the "several hundred other units in the NHS" referred to by the Minister of Social Security at column 1943 of the Commons Hansard for 2nd February 1979 which are regarded as national centres of excellence in the same category of spinal units such as the National Spinal Injuries Unit at Stoke Mandeville.
§ Lord WELLS-PESTELLHer Majesty's Government are considering the position in the resource allocation arrangements of a variety of units providing specialised services over wide areas, and my right honourable friend was referring to the larger number of units which might conceivably have claims for special treatment similar to that of the spinal injuries unit at Stoke Mandeville. A list of such units does not exist.
§ Lord BYERSasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many people were awaiting in-patient hospital treatment at the National Spinal Injuries Unit at Stoke Mandeville at the latest convenient date.
§ Lord WELLS-PESTELLAt 23rd March 1979, 86 persons were awaiting in-patient treatment at the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.