Patient Costs

HC Deb 23 December 1964 vol 704 cc330-1W

Mr. Peter Emery

asked the Minister of Health what is the average cost for a patient per day at a mental hospital outside London, a geriatric hospital outside London, and a general hospital outside London, respectively.

Sir B. Stross

The average costs per patient per day for the financial year 1963–64 in non-teaching hospitals outside the metropolitan regions were as follows:

Hospital Type
				£	s.	d
Mental Illess	…	…	…	1	9	7
Chronic	…	…	…	2	0	4
Acute	…	…	…	4	14	5