§ Mr. Michael McNair-Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many kidney patients on 46W average requiring dialysis are now being treated per million of the population; and if he will publish the figures for each of the regional health authorities.
§ Mrs. CurrieAccording to provisional information provided by the European dialysis and transplant association, the number of patients receiving dialysis treatment per million population in each regional health authority on 31 December 1986 was as follows:
Patients per million population Region Patients Northern 158.1 Yorkshire 116.1 Trent 153.4 East Anglian 110.5 North West Thames 103.8 North East Thames 179.7 South East Thames 1 105.1 South West Thames Wessex 66.8 Oxford 113.1 South Western 124.9 West Midlands 117.9 Mersey 96.5 Northern Western 126.3 1 Regions have arrangements for shared service. These figures should be treated with caution because patients do not always receive dialysis in the region fin which they reside. Patients with a functioning transplant are excluded.
The statistics imply an average figure for England of 122.4 patients per million population receiving all forms of dialysis on 31 December 1986: the corresponding figure for the whole of the United Kingdom was 1209.