Family Planning (Hansard, 3 December 1987)

§ Mr. Steel
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many patients were registered with general practitioners for National Health Service contraceptive services in 1986 in Wales.

§ Mr. Grist
Registration with general practitioners for contraceptive services is not required.
An estimate of the number of patients in receipt of National Health Service contraceptive services from general practitioners in 1986 is 126,000.

§ Mr. Steel
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the total cost of the general practitioner provision for National Health Service family planning services to patients for 1986 in Wales.

§ Mr. Grist
For financial year 1986–87 the estimated cost is £2.7 million.

§ Mr. Steel
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many general practitioners are registered to provide a National Health Service family planning service to their patients in Wales; and how many premises are involved.

§ Mr. Ian Grist
There were in Wales at the 1 October 1986, 1,530 general practitioners who provided a family planning service. Of these, 368 provided the service to only those who were registered with them for general medical service, and 1,162 provided a family planning service to any patient irrespective of whether that patient was registered with that general practitioner or not. No information is available centrally on how many premises are involved.