§ Mr. Alan HowarthTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will update the estimates set out on 22 May 1995,Official Report, column 406, relating to the average cost of keeping an elderly infirm person in a (a) hospital bed, (b) nursing home and (c) residential care home. [10210]
§ Mr. BurnsThe Department does not collect information on the average cost for the elderly and infirm of a place in a hospital, residential care home or a nursing home, but the Laing and Buisson market survey estimates, on the basis of the latest survey of independent sector homes, the average fees were £333 and £239 per week at August 1995 for nursing homes and residential care homes, respectively. These figures do not include contributions from individuals' income or from public sources.
413WThe average cost of keeping an elderly infirm person in a hospital bed has been estimated by the personal social services research unit in "The Unit Cost of Health and Social Care", 1996, to be £114 per in-patient day, or £798 per week at 1995–96 prices.
In addition, figures on gross expenditure per week by local authorities for each supported resident in residential and nursing homes for the elderly in 1994–95, the latest year for which figures are available are given as item UCO2 and UCO3 in table UI of "Key Indicators of Local Authority Social Services 1996", copies of which are available in the Library.
NHS hospital and community health services nurses1,2 by regional health authority in England as at September 1979 to 1995 whole-time equivalents 19793 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 England4 10,700 10,470 10,300 10,120 10,030 9,770 9,930 9,990 9,500 (per 5,000 head of population) (1.15) (1.13) (1.10) (1.08) (1.07) (1.04) (1.05) (1.06) (1.00) Northern n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 820 820 Yorkshire n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 720 740 Trent n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 1,000 1,000 East Anglia n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 390 360 North-west Thames n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 650 590 North-east Thames n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 650 630 South-east Thames4 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 720 480 South-west Thames n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 660 620 Wessex n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 650 620 Oxford n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 510 510 South Western n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 620 620 West Midlands n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 1,060 1,040 Mersey n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 520 530 North Western n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 1,000 920 SHAs and others n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 20 10 Not included in the figures above: General Medical Service Practice nurses5 990 1,070 1,240 1,450 1,660 1,920 2,210 2,500 2,770
whole-time equivalents 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 England4 9,390 10,160 10,390 9,900 9,650 9,460 8,680 11,360 (per 5,000 head of population) (0.99) (1.06) (1.08) (1.03) (1.00) (1.00) (0.98) (1.16) Northern 810 850 850 820 900 880 640 740 Yorkshire 710 790 780 660 630 630 620 750 Trent 1,030 1,040 1,010 980 930 850 820 1,010 East Anglia 370 370 350 350 330 320 300 610 North-west Thames 570 720 700 660 590 620 610 540 North-east Thames 610 710 730 710 710 680 620 890 South-east Thames4 410 350 790 680 670 620 530 1,070 South-west Thames 510 660 620 630 570 610 610 660 Wessex 620 640 630 620 630 660 570 630 Oxford 500 570 580 580 550 600 500 610 South Western 630 750 710 640 620 590 580 800 West Midlands 1,020 1,100 1,080 1,070 1,060 1,020 960 1,210 Mersey 510 570 550 520 490 480 460 380 North Western 980 1,030 1,010 990 950 890 800 1,250 SHAs and others 10 10 — — 6— 6— — 6— Not included in the figures above: General Medical Service Practice nurses5 3,480 4,630 7,740 8,780 9,120 9,600 9,100 9,740 Notes: 1 Between 1979 and 1994 district nurses exclude seniors 1–5. Included are senior nurses 6–8 in district nursing, district nurses, district nurse practical work teachers, holders of dual post (DN/Midwife), bank district nurses nd clinical grades C to I in district nursing. 2 A new classification for non-medical staff was introduced in 1995. Information based on this classification is not directly comparable with earlier years. 3 Figures for 1979 are not directly comparable with those for later years because of the change in nurses standard working hours in 1980-81 from 40 to 37.5 hours a week.