§ Mrs. Ann Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will estimate the current total annual cost of providing mammographic units under the National Health Service.
§ Mr. HayhoeI regret that the information on which to make such an estimate is not collected centrally.
§ Mrs. Ann Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give a breakdown by health authority of the numbers of mammographic units which are available under the National Health Service.
§ Mr. HayhoeWhile information on the number of mammographic units is not collected routinely the following table sets out those districts which, as at January 1986. are understood to have mammographic machines which had been installed or upgraded since 1975.
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Regional Health Authority District Northern South Tees North West Durham South West Durham Gateshead Sunderland Yorkshire Scunthorpe Northallerton Harrogate Airedale Huddersfield Dewsbury Leeds Weslern York Bradford Hull Grimsby Trent Southern Derbyshire Leicestershire Bassetlaw South Lincolnshire Nottingham (3) Rotherham Sheffield East Anglian Cambridge Huntingdon West Norfolk and Wisbech West Suffolk East Suffolk South West Thames North West Surrey West Surrey and North East Hampshire South West Surrey (2) East Surrey Mid-Downs (2) 363W
Regional Health District Authority Worthing Croydon Wandsworth North West Thames South Bedfordshire North West Hertfordshire Barnet Harrow Hounslow Ealing Riverside Paddington North East Thames Barking, Havering and Brentwood (2) Bloomsbury City and Hackney Hampstead Haringey Islington Mid Essex Newham Waltham Forest West Essex South East Thames Brighton Bromley Camberwell Canterbury (2) Dartford and Gravesham Eastbourne Maidstone Medway South East Kent (2) West Lambeth Wessex East Dorset Portsmouth Southampton Winchester Salisbury Bath Isle of Wight Oxford East Berkshire West Berkshire (2) Aylesbury Vale Wycombe Milton Keynes Oxford (2) Northampton South Western Bristol and Weston Cheltenham Cornwall Gloucester North Devon Somerset Torbay West Midlands Bromsgrove and Redditch South East Staffordshire Worcester North Staffordshire Central Birmingham South Birmingham West Birmingham Coventry Dudley Sandwell Walsall Wolverhampton North Birmingham Shropshire South Warwickshire Rugby
Regional Health Authority District Mersey Southport and Formby South Sefton (2) Liverpool Wirral (3) Chester Crewe Warrington North Western Blackburn Burnley West Lancashire Wigan Salford South Manchester Rochdale Special Health Authorities The Royal Marsden (3) All districts shown have one machine except where otherwise indicated in parenthesis.
§ Mrs. Ann Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many health authorities currently have agreements with private health companies for the provision of mammography units; and what is the average cost to the National Health Service per patient visit of attending such units.
§ Mr. HayhoeI regret that this information is not collected centrally.