HC Deb 02 February 1988 vol 126 cc595-605W
Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give, for each regional health authority, district health authority, and special health authority, and

Number of attendances by private patients at NHS hospitals in 1983 and 1986.
Out-patients Day cases Regular day patients
District Health Authority 1983 1986 1983 1986 1983 1986
Northern Regional Health Authority
Hartlepool 218 232 109 155
North Tees 265 377 55 33
South Tees 846 2,238 277 307
East Cumbria 452 657 239 152
South Cumbria 348 661 108 163
West Cumbria 106 98 21 1
Darlington 67 273 76 122
Durham 405 1,177 17 163
North West Durham 238 216 61 88
South West Durham 190 434 36 44
Northumberland 385 646 54 43
Gateshead 185 93 188 55
Newcastle upon Tyne 1,412 2,956 309 235
North Tyneside 20 21
South Tyneside 23 126 106 110
Sunderland 441 166 274 241
Regional Health Authority Total 5,581 10,350 1,950 1,933 0 0
Yorkshire Regional Health Authority
Hull 447 1,086 461 120
East Yorkshire 17 46 172 163
Grimsby 234 442 306 21
Scunthorpe 1,479 1,417 114 106
Northallerton 120 338 69 34
York 1 258 106 79
Scarborough 42 87 7 7
Harrogate 108 21 38
Bradford 3,037 2,075 453 148
Airedale 883 752 257 273
Calderdale 988 421 442 80

for England as a whole, the number of attendances in 1983 and 1986 by (a) private out-patients, (b) private day cases and (c) private regular day patients.

Mrs. Currie

[holding answer 18 January 1988]: The information requested is given in the table.

Out-patients Day cases Regular day patients
District Health 1983 1986 1983 1986 1983 1986
Authority
Huddersfield 45 436 54 2
Dewsbury 22 34 159 82
Leeds Western 2,540 3,549 26 201
Leeds Eastern 105 426 19 27
Wakefield 872 543 241 65
Pontefract 69 249 94
Regional Health Authority Total 10,832 12,087 3,156 1,540 0 0
Trent Regional Health Authority
North Derbyshire 66 518 336 188
Southern Derbyshire 758 1,539 301 334
Leicestershire 1,810 681 1,066
North Lincolnshire 3,434 5,210 105 198
South Lincolnshire 950 1,514 242 282
Bassetlaw 157 195
Central Nottinghamshire 68 127 207 43 —— ——
Nottingham 326 162 667 130
Barnsley 28 332 204 120
Doncaster 296 1,730 17 31
Rotherham
Sheffield 2,136 2,626 104 125 1
Regional Health Authority Total 8,062 15,725 2,864 2,712 0 1
East Anglian Regional Health Authority
Cambridge 1,568 3,968 10 14
Peterborough 607 841 138 59
West Suffolk 342 380 87 101
East Suffolk 774 2,804 5 120
Norwich 1,360 1,451 294 160
Great Yarmouth and Waveney 353 796 96 117 —— ——
West Norfolk and Wisbech 80 1,765 248 410
Huntingdon 95 240 8 67
Regional Health Authority Total 5,179 12,245 886 1,048 0 0
North West Thames Regional Health Authority
North Bedfordshire 654 1,844 75 24
South Bedfordshire SOI 287 152 115 ——
North Hertfordshire 705 572 77 49
East Hertfordshire 1,902 1,678 174 202
North West Hertfordshire 17 62 309 203
South West Hertfordshire 356 169 98 88
Barnet 5,891 4,877 144 70
Harrow 705 563 24 10 16
Hillingdon 606 1,162 207 157
Hounslow and Spelthorne 1,397 2,474 280 239
Ealing 84 62 28 35
Brent 513 361 2 4
Paddington and North Kensington 2,231 2,905 129 89
Riverside 10,762 8,387 515 636 39
Regional Health Authority Total 26,324 25,403 2,214 1,921 16 39
North East Thames Regional Health Authority

Out-patients Day cases Regular day patients
District Health Authority 1983 1986 1983 1986 1983 1986
Basildon and Thurrock 762 648 355 317 1
Mid Essex 1,696 3,362 637 653
North East Essex 3,619 7,012 89 122
West Essex 5,185 4,588 197 200
Southend 1,758 1,155 317 199
Barking, Havering and Brentwood 3,344 5,103 273 255
Hampstead 5,209 4,734 160 161
Bloomsbury 4,320 5,938 288 317
Islington 181 305 36 107
City and Hackney 14 105 16 1
Newham 18 330 4 24
Tower Hamlets 6,363 5,945
Enfield 317 391 163 131
Haringey 627 435 107 120
Redbridge 3,924 3,362 78 37
Waltham Forest 542 349 40 10 35
Regional Health Authority Total 37,879 43,762 2,760 2,654 35 1
South East Thames Regional Health Authority
Brighton 428 511 4 43
Eastbourne 934 1,003 130 138
Hastings 271 1,494 47 63 28
South East Kent 352 681 108 74
Canterbury and Thanet 1,864 2,195 105 216
Dartford and Gravesham 1,332 849 128 77
Maidstone 1,273 2,060 154 36 2
Medway 822 681 242 41
Tunbridge Wells 2,165 3,494 786 456 43
Bexley 3,452 2,729 267 187
Greenwich 2,436 1,166 167 110
Bromley 538 773 371 107
West Lambeth 269 348 198 213
Camberwell 240 313
Lewisham and North Southwark 2,423 60 217 10
Regional Health Authority Total 16,109 20,407 3,007 2,291 30 53
South West Thames Regional Health Authority
North West Surrey 3,731 368 419 327
West Surrey/North East Hants 780 819 205 290
South West Surrey 2,452 3,944 75 185
Mid Surrey 1,688 145 526 101
East Surrey 110 329 51 16
Chichester 918 808 316 130
Mid Downs 2,402 821 253 180
Worthing 24 123 62 63
Croydon 12 152 98 110
Kingston and Esher 520 521 66 138
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 462 540 9 29
Wandsworth 1,075 950 109 159
Merton and Sutton 706 731 404 129
Regional Health Authority Total 14,880 10,251 2,593 1,857 0 0
Wessex Regional Health Authority
East Dorset 175 233 42 27
West Dorset 354 304 11 13

Out-patients Day cases Regular day patients
District Health Authority 1983 1986 1983 1986 1983 1986
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 1,226 1,509 580 240
Southampton and South West Hampshire 43 2,231 261 697
Winchester 115 108
Basingstoke and North Hampshire 202 92
Salisbury 143 729 40 24
Swindon 3,068 1,286 186 77
Bath 84 564 98
Isle of Wight 30 75 25 1
Regional Health Authority Total 5,123 6,931 1,560 1,279 0 0
Oxford Regional Health Authority
East Berkshire 340 604 7 89 163 418
West Berkshire 2,032 112 697
Aylesbury Vale 961 2,475 190 168
Wycombe 1,364 1,173 6 8
Milton Keynes 129 249 3
Kettering 1,803 3,789 369 448
Northampton 1,040 1,379 140 145
Oxfordshire 3,428 47 19 48
Regional Health Authority Total 5,637 15,129 871 1,577 163 466
South Western Regional Health Authority
Bristol and Weston 305 2,427 83 83
Frenchay 129 346 27 12
Southmead —— 26
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 384 669 99 46 37
Exeter 1 452 76 42 1
North Devon 454 770 63 75
Plymouth 39
Torbay 1,345 70 262 77
Cheltenham 286 170 131 201
Gloucester 385 429 284 115
Somerset 270 501 210 193
Regional Health Authority Total 3,559 5,860 1,274 844 37 1
West Midlands Regional Health Authority
Bromsgrove and Redditch 814 393 17 18 —— ——
Herefordshire —— —— 28 7
Kidderminster and District 137 190 67
Worcester and District 91 81 620 34
Shropshire 433 843 128 109 16
Mid-Staffordshire 192 758 194 158
North Staffordshire 739 3,159 457 352
South East Staffordshire 2,411 1,915 280 220
Rugby 799 1,024 102 135
North Warwickshire 173 458 78 94
South Warwickshire 28 26 101 128
Central Birmingham 94 1,470 270 82
East Birmingham 263 30 17
North Birmingham 279 16
South Birmingham 161 188 25 81
West Birmingham 461 258 131 37
Coventry 33 53 203 288 36 37
Dudley 3 33 344 317
Sandwell 462 1,406 153 101

Out-patients Day cases Regular day patients
District Health Authority 1983 1986 1983 1986 1983 1986
Solihull 3 384 2 3
Walsall 474 1,199 273 229
Wolverhampton 424 1,013 44 38
Regional Health Authority Total 7,795 15,061 3,949 2,531 36 53
Mersey Regional Health Authority
Chester 203 237 5 19
Crewe 1,273 3,554 496 808
Halton 9 244 41
Macclesfield 345 365 95 274 28
Warrington 90 528 401 392
Liverpool 351 943 186 223
St. Helens and Knowsley 3,307 1,967 257 222
Southport and Formby 460 65 198
South Sefton 2 542 14 105
Wirral 1,182 1,414 102 55
Regional Health Authority Total 6,762 10,254 1,621 2,337 28
North Western Regional Health Authority
Lancaster 106 377 216 21
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 279 495 145 56
Preston 1,166 1,078 324 544
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 18 213 3 55
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 322 175 248 230
West Lancashire 1,463 2,020 70 111
Chorley and South Ribble 101 6 9
Bolton 275 238
Bury 489 1,116 403 421
North Manchester 402 507 21 21
Central Manchester 41 164 173 514
South Manchester 9,715 14,544 296 214
Oldham 780 876 75 89
Rochdale 339 380 4 14
Salford 335 2,028 37 57
Stockport 266 572 42 46
Tameside and Glossop 401 172 46 80
Trafford 177 153 61 58
Wigan 236 1,631 279 291
Regional Health Authority Total 16,535 26,877 2,687 2,831
Special Health Authorities
Hospital for Sick Children 1,697 2,024 183 201
National Hospital for Nervous Diseases 1,962 1,710 82 3
Moorfields Eye Hospital 1,493 37 19
Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals 120 103 7 5

Out-patients Day cases Regular dav patients
District Health Authority 1983 1986 1983 1986 1983 1986
National Heart and Chest Hospitals 3,390 3,335 5 107
The Royal Marsden Hospitals 10,044 10,537 220 112 74 9
Hammersmith and Queen Charlottes 3,016 3,557 386 423
Eastman Dental Hospital 282 398
Regional Health Authority Total 20,511 23,157 920 870 74 9
England Total 190,768 253,499 32,312 28,225 419 623