Mental Illness (Hansard, 25 May 1989)

§ Mr. Goodlad

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much was spent in each health region in each of the last three years on the care and treatment of patients suffering from(a) schizophrenia and (b) all mental illness; and what percentage each figure was of total expenditure on health services;

(2) what is the current annual cost per patient to the National Health Service of the care and treatment of patients suffering from (a) mental illness and (b) schizophrenia psychoses;

Revenue Expenditure on Hospitals Categorised as "Mental Illness"
	1984–85	1985–86	1986–87
Region	Revenue Expenditure £000	Percentage of total revenue expenditure	Revenue Expenditure £000	Percentage of total revenue expenditure	Revenue Expenditure £000	Percentage of total revenue Expenditure
	(cash)		(cash)		(cash)
Northern	53,150	9.06	55,341	8.92	57,780	8.69
Yorkshire	60,176	9.15	62,327	8.91	63,883	8.54
Trent	68,557	8.62	74,271	8.81	78,973	8.64
East Anglia	31,488	9.39	34,273	9.57	36,333	9.33
North West Thames	68,511	9.77	73,968	10.15	74,047	9.52
North East Thames	69,895	7.93	71,224	7.79	75,608	7.75
South East Thames	74,529	9.65	65,218	8.08	76,136	8.88
South West Thames	69,969	11.93	72,672	11.95	74,067	11.39
Wessex	49,980	10.36	51,132	10.09	55,041	10.02
Oxford	26,661	6.98	27,553	6.85	29,431	6·78
South Western	56,016	9.81	57,490	9.53	57,891	8.91
West Midlands	82,548	8.98	85,875	8.82	89,801	8.55
Mersey	46,221	9.56	46,977	9.25	47,681	8.78
North Western	31,127	3.82	33,243	3.86	35,215	3.82
All regions Total	788,828	8.80	811,564	8.60	851,887	8.41

Sources:—

"Health Services Costing Returns" and annual acccounts of regional and district health authorities—1984–85 to 1986–87.

Notes:

1. The revenue expenditure for the mental illness hospitals includes expenditure on in-patients, out-patients and day patients.

2. The figures used for total revenue expenditure are for hospital and community health services revenue expenditure incurred by regional and district health authorities. HCHS includes hospital, community, ambulance, blood transfusion and other services.