§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish a table, using the PACT database, showing the expenditure on prescriptions for each family practitioner committee area, together with the totals for each National Health Service region for the 1988–89 financial year; and if he will express that expenditure as a figure per head of population for each area and region.
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§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe information requested cannot be derived from PACT but is available to the Department as set out in the table.
80W
Total cost of prescriptions dispensed by chemists, appliance contractors and dispensing doctors April 1988-March 1989 Total cost (£ thousands) Total cost per head (£) Cleveland 28,092 50.79 Cumbria 24,043 49.15 Durham 30,680 51.41 Northumberland 14.950 49.60 Gateshead 10,075 48.85 Newcastle 13,732 49.11 North Tyne 11,282 58.49 South Tyne 7,873 50.56 Sunderland 16,187 54.67 Northern RHA 156,913 51.09 Humberside 43,177 50.77 North Yorks 33,452 46.91 Bradford 22,626 48.75 Calderdale 9,755 49.78 Kirklees 16,707 44.51 Leeds 35,071 49.42 Wakefield 16,183 51.94 Yorkshire RHA 176,971 48.88 Derbyshire 41,294 44.68 Leicester 38,876 43.90 Lincoln 31,465 54.01 Nottinghamshire 43,023 42.70 Barnsley 12,256 55.48 Doncaster 15,069 51.67 Rotherham 11,379 45.19 Sheffield 24,837 47.01 Trent RHA 218,199 46.50 Cambridgeshire 27,433 42.10 Norfolk 36,831 49.48 Suffolk 28,874 45.22 East Anglia RHA 93,139 45.78 Bedford 22,807 42.97 Hertfordshire 41,008 41.59 Barnet 12,713 42.17 Brent and Harrow 20,442 44.99 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 28,080 44.03 Hillingdon 10,167 43.84 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 15,484 52.43 North West Thames RHA 150,701 43.84 Essex 68,037 44.48 Barking and Havering 16,285 42.51 Camden and Islington 15,483 44.02 City and East London 26,517 47.17 Enfield and Harringey 18,451 40.71 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 20,533 46.24 North East Thames RHA 165,307 44.39 East Sussex 35,896 50.36 Kent 69,585 45.77 Bexley and Greenwich 17,862 41.08 Bromley 12,009 40.27 Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark 29,858 43.56 South East Thames RHA 165,210 45.24
April 1988-March 1989 Total cost (£ thousands) Total cost per head (£) Surrey 41,926 41.94 West Sussex 35,115 49.92 Croydon 12,737 40.16 Kingston and Richmond 13,242 44.84 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 25,272 42.88 South West Thames RHA 128,291 44.16 Dorsetshire 34,655 52.85 Hampshire 67,109 43.49 Wiltshire 23,357 41.93 Isle of Wight 6,837 52.68 Wessex RHA 131,957 45.73 Berkshire 30,869 41.32 Buckinghamshire 25,087 39.99 Northamptonshire 24,396 42.78 Oxfordshire 23,279 40.21 Oxford RHA 103,630 41.06 Avon 40,246 42.17 Cornwall 24,587 53.38 Devon 49,330 48.31 Gloucester 22,021 41.75 Somerset 21,633 47.27 South Western RHA 157,817 46.13 Hereford and Worcester 28,835 42.98 Salop 18,186 45.38 Staffordshire 46,578 45.10 Warwickshire 22,812 47.07 Birmingham 51,029 51.35 Coventry 14,879 48.59 Dudley 12,884 42.34 Sandwell 15,640 52.79 Solihull 9,313 45.42 Walsall 13,739 52.38 Wolverhampton 12,774 51.22 West Midlands RHA 246,669 47.38 Cheshire 45,845 47.97 Liverpool 26,515 56.46 St. Helens with Knowsley 17,544 50.70 Sefton 15,047 50.56 Wirral 18,170 54.27 Mersey RHA 123,121 51.22 Lancashire 75,826 54.87 Bolton 12,216 46.34 Bury 9,470 54.12 Manchester 23,340 52.34 Oldham 10,480 47.74 Rochdale 10,891 52.65 Salford 13,916 59.06 Stockport 14,546 50.00 Tameside 10,835 49.97 Trafford 11,847 54.91 Wigan 16,258 52.85 North Western RHA 209,625 52.94 The figures include prescriptions dispensed by retail chemists, applicance contractors and dispensing doctors.
Total cost includes the basic price of the drug less discount plus dispensing costs and fees.
Figures are based on OPCS estimates of resident populations for mid year 1988.