§ Mr. Hannamasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give the latest available figures for each regional health authority of the amount and percentage of its annual budget that it spends on (a) kidney transplant, (b) hospital haemodialysis, (c) home dialysis and (d) continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
§ Mr. John PattenInformation on regional resource allocations is not collected centrally.
§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish the latest figures of (a) the number of renal units, (b) the number of hospital haemodialysis units, (c) the number of home haemodialysis units and (d) the number of satellite units for each regional health authority; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. John PattenThe most recent information available to the Department is attached. All renal units provide hospital haemodialysis and they are also responsible for the provision of home haemodialysis. Information about the number of satellite units is not held centrally.
Region Number of Renal Units (on 31 December 1982) Number of patients on Home haemodialysis (on 31 December 1981) Northern 4 90 Yorkshire 3 88 Trent 6 276 East Anglian 2 72 North West Thames 3 147 North East Thames 4 253 South East Thames 5 180 South West Thames 2 28 Wessex 1 85 Oxford 1 102 South-Western 3 138 West Midlands 5 125 Mersey 4 68 North-Western 4 128 On renal services generally, I have nothing to add to my reply to the hon. Member for Eccles (Mr. Carter-Jones) on 3 February at c. 406.
§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services for each regional health authority what is the number of staff specialising in kidney treatment; what this is as a percentage of the total staff employed by the regional health authority; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. John PattenInformation on the numbers of hospital staff specialising in nephrology in each region on 30 September 1983 is attached. General physicians with an interest in nephrology also play a significant part in572W providing specialist services but their numbers are not recorded centrally. Information is not available on the numbers of other hospital staff involved in the provision of renal services. For this reason, hospital medical staff specialising in nephrology are shown as a percentage of all hospital medical staff within each region and not of total National Health Service staff.
Region Hospital medical staff specialising in nephrology As a percentage of all hospital medical staff Number Whole time equivalent Number Whole time equivalent Northern 16 11.7 0.57 0.50 Yorkshire 16 15.5 0.51 0.62 Trent 9 7.6 0.25 0.25 East Anglian 4 4.0 0.25 0.31 North West Thames 11 9.6 0.31 0.35 North East Thames 31 27.8 0.74 0.81 South East Thames 46 33.3 1.33 1.18 South West Thames 1 1.0 0.04 0.05 Wessex 10 8.6 0.44 0.50 Oxford 8 7.1 0.38 0.44 South-Western 12 10.6 0.44 0.50 West Midlands 13 10.5 0.30 0.30 Mersey 11 11.0 0.52 0.61 North-Western 16 13.2 0.41 0.40 London* 12 6.4 0.82 0.68 * post-graduate teaching hospitals