§ Mr. LivseyTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the amount of(a) bad debts and (b) claims 130W] abandoned in Wales for each health authority in each region for the last five years. [76925]
Mr. Jon Owen Jones[holding answer 15 March 1999]: The information is not centrally available in the format requested. However, the combined costs of bad debts and claims abandoned are shown in the following table.
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Total amount of bad debts and claims abandoned £000 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 NHS Trusts Bridgend & District 5 45 22 5 9 Cardiff Community — — 0 10 2 Carmarthen & District 10 0 3 0 2 Ceredigion & Mid Wales 1 2 0 0 2 Clwydian Community Care 39 37 3 13 4 Derwen — 6 0 1 — East Glamorgan — 15 10 24 21 Glan Clwyd 30 79 21 3 6 Glan Hafren 54 41 44 0 0 Glan Y Mor — — — 2 0 Gwent Community 50 37 4 0 1 Gwynedd Community — 0 3 20 1 Gwynedd Hospitals — 5 5 10 6 Llandough Hospital 50 11 3 3 11 Llanelli Dinefwr 8 3 4 0 5 Mid Glamorgan Ambulance — 52 5 0 0 Morriston Hospital — 23 5 10 21 Nevill Hall — 1 8 3 2 North Glamorgan — — — 6 7 North Wales Ambulance — 2 0 0 1 Pembrokeshire 3 0 4 2 — Pembrokeshire & Derwen1 — — — — 1,237 Powys Healthcare 0 0 2 3 0 Rhondda Healthcare — 4 1 1 0 South East Wales Ambulance 0 61 0 0 1 Swansea 0 0 6 10 9 University Dental Hospital of Wales — — 0 0 4 University Hospital of Wales — — 0 173 126 Velindre Hospital — 5 8 0 4 West Wales Ambulance — — 0 22 1 Wrexham Maelor 23 38 0 0 33 Total 273 467 161 321 1,516 Health Authorities Bro Taf — — — 0 0 Dyfed Powys — — — 10 3 Gwent — — — 13 0 Morgannwg — — — 45 2 North Wales — — — 0 70 HPAW — — — 0 0 WHCSA — — — 5,087 32 Total — — — 5,155 107 District Health Authorities Clwyd 33 2 0 — — Dyfed 8 5 8 — — Gwent 15 6 117 — — Gwynedd 12 55 31 — — Mid Glamorgan 463 12 27 — — Pembroke 0 0 — — — Powys 0 0 2 — — South Glamorgan 76 154 0 — — West Glamorgan 16 2 79 — — HPAW 0 0 452 — — WHCSA 0 22 0 — — Total 623 258 716 — — Notes:
1. Pembrokeshire and Derwen NHS trusts merged on 1 April 1997.
2. The loss of £1.235 million relates to repairs to the roof of Withybush hospital shown in the 1997–98 accounts.
3. The loss of £5.087 million relates to remedial works at University Hospital of Wales shown in the 1996–97 accounts.
4. Bad debts and claims abandoned information is collected under one heading in the annual accounts: the figures include claims against private patients, private non-resident patients, overseas visitors, Road Traffic Act claims and other claims.
5. Figures from health authorities are taken from financial returns and receipts and payments returns.
6. Figures from NHS trusts are taken from financial returns for 1994–95 to 1997–98: figures for 1993–94 are taken from the annual accounts and relate to bad debts only.
Source:
Audited Annual Accounts of NHS Trust, health and district health authorities from 1993–94 to 1997–98
132W133WFollowing the transfer of functions, this issue will be a matter for the National Assembly.