§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what information his Department maintains on the use of general practice fundholders' savings(a) by general practitioner fundholding practices and (b) by regional health authorities. [9034]
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§ Mr. Malone[pursuant to his reply, 16 January c. 555]: The Department receives information from each family health services authority each year on the amount of savings used by general practitioner fundholders.
Monitoring of the detailed use of savings is a local responsibility. Information about this is not routinely collected centrally.
§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 16 January,Official Report, column 555, if he will list (a) by family health service authority, and (b) by region, the total savings made by general practitioners and the level of savings spent in each year since the inception of fundholding. [11108]
§ Mr. MaloneI refer the hon. Member to the replies I gave him on 24 November 1994,Official Report, column 321–22, and on 14 March 1995, Official Report, column 545–46, which provide the available information on savings made by general practitioner fundholders.
The available information on savings used by GP fundholders is given in the table.
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Savings used by GP Fundholders—1993–94 FHSA name Amount used (£000) Northern Yorkshire Bradford 262 Calderdale 2 Cleveland 131 Cumbria 0 Durham 171 Gateshead 52 Humberside 90 Kirklees 0 Leeds 265 Newcastle 27 North Tyneside 0 North Yorkshire 405 Northumberland 75 South Tyneside 5 Sunderland 0 Wakefield 638 Trent Barnsley 0 Derbyshire 168 Doncaster 27 Leicestershire 319 Lincolnshire 150 Nottinghamshire 159 Rotherham 6 Sheffield 39 Anglia and Oxford Bedfordshire 43 Berkshire 737 Buckinghamshire 1,009 Cambridgeshire 155 Norfolk 266 Northamptonshire 199 Oxfordshire 272 Suffolk 98 North Thames Barking and Havering 1 Barnet 49 Brent and Harrow 8 Camden and Islington 107 100W
Savings used by GP Fundholders—1993–94 FHSA name Amount used (£000) City and East London 32 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 153 Enfield and Haringey 21 Essex 438 Hertfordshire 524 Hillingdon 104 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 140 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 7 South Thames Bromley 27 Croydon 24 East Sussex 47 Greenwich and Bexley 37 Kent 109 Kingston and Richmond 74 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 21 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 158 Surrey 78 West Sussex 148 South and West Avon 248 Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly 267 Devon 299 Dorset 151 Gloucestershire 26 Hampshire 263 Isle of Wight 18 Somerset 123 Wiltshire 37
Savings used by GP Fundholders—1993–94 FHSA name Amount used (£000) West Midlands Birmingham 468 Coventry 49 Dudley 0 Hereford and Worcestershire 676 Sandwell 228 Shropshire 203 Solihull 521 Staffordshire 522 Walsall 50 Warwickshire 23 Wolverhampton 0 North-west Bolton 0 Bury 0 Cheshire 649 Lancashire 89 Liverpool 304 Manchester 38 Oldham 913 Rochdale 39 Salford 0 Sefton 152 St. Helens and Knowsley 108 Stockport 0 Tameside 68 Trafford 0 Wigan 0 Wirral 148 Source:
Regional offices.
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