§ Mrs. Ray MichieTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of health service funds were spent on providing facilities for breast cancer screening for each year since 1979.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe Government began setting up a comprehensive breast screening programme in 1987.
The proportion of health service funds spent on providing facilities for breast screening in England for each financial year since 1987 is:
Total NHS Funds (Gross) £ Cost of Breast Cancer Screening £ million Percentage of Total Funds 1987–88 17,657 5.894 0.03 1988–89 19,604 18.182 0.09 1989–90 21,147 31.834 0.15 1990–91 23,687 25.573 0.10
§ Mrs. Ray MichieTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list all the hospitals in England and Wales which provide full facilities for the screening of breast cancer and the total number of patients screened for each year since 1979.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe information is not available in the form requested. The Government began setting up a comprehensive breast screening programme in 1987. The service is provided mainly on a supra-district basis and not every screening centre is based at a hospital. Mobile screening units and static units not based in hospitals are also used. The table shows a list of districts in which breast screening services are based.
Available figures show that from April 1988 to March 1990, in England, Scotland and Wales, 304,952 women were screened. These figures apply only to the centres with data for full years and therefore do not reflect our overall activity in breast screening.
626WHost districts of NHS breast screening programme
Northern Regional Health Authority
- Newcastle
- Gateshead
- North Tees
- West Cumbria
Yorkshire Regional Health Authority
- Huddersfield
- York
- Hull
- Leeds Eastern
Trent Regional Health Authority
- Nottingham
- Leicestershire
- South Lincolnshire
- Rotherham
- South Derbyshire
- Sheffield
East Anglian Regional Health Authority
- West Norfolk and Wisbech
- Peterborough
- East Suffolk
- Norwich
- Cambridge
North West Thames Regional Health Authority
- Riverside
- Barnet
- South Bedfordshire
North East Thames Regional Health Authority
- West Essex
- Bloomsbury
- North East Essex
- City and Hackney
- Waltham Forest
- Barking, Havering and Brentwood
- Haringey
- Southend
South East Thames Regional Health Authority
- Brighton
- Canterbury and Thanet
- Camberwell
South West Thames Regional Health Authority
- South West Surrey
- Worthing
- Wandsworth
Wesssex Regional Health Authority
- Southampton
- Isle of Wight
- Portsmouth and South East Hampshire
- East Dorset Swindon/Bath
- Winchester
Oxford Regional Health Authority
- Aylesbury Vale
- Northampton
- Wycombe
- Milton Keynes
- Kettering
- West Berkshire
- East Berkshire
- Oxfordshire
South Western Regional Health Authority
- Cornwall
- Plymouth
627 - Bristol and Weston
- Exeter
- Cheltenham
- Somerset
West Midlands Regional Health Authority
- North Staffordshire
- Coventry
- Dudley/Wolverhampton
- Walsall/Sandwell
- Shropshire
- Mid Staffordshire
- South East Staffordshire
- West Birmingham
- South Birmingham
- Bromsgrove
Mersey Regional Health Authority
- Liverpool
- Warrington
- Crewe
- Chester
- Macclesfield
- Wirral
North Western Regional Health Authority
- South Manchester
- Wigan
- Bolton
- East Lancashire
- North Lancashire
Theatre Army £ RAF £ Royal Navy £ Total £ United Kingdom 655,200 353,808 175,812 1,184,820 Germany 120,961 31,558 — 152,519 Cyprus 34,858 11,866 — 46,724 Gibraltar 6,355 3,531 3,531 13,417 Hong Kong 8,600 246 1,597 10,443 Brunei 1,286 — — 1,286 Belize 29,075 6,203 — 35,277 Nepal 180 — — 180 Royal Navy Ships — — 200,018 200,018 Falkland Islands 15,925 22,295 — 38,220 Gulf 432,432 51,251 — 483,683 Ascension Island — 3,000 — 3,000 Total 1,304,872 483,758 380,958 2,169,587