HC Deb 20 July 2000 vol 354 cc282-4W
Mrs. Ann Winterton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the number of places currently available for in-patient treatment for drug addiction in each county in England. [131315]

Ms Stuart

The information requested is not collected centrally. The number of hospital admissions in 1998–99 of National Health Service and private patients for diagnoses relating to drug misuse are shown in the table, by health authority of treatment. The data do not include treatment in private hospitals.

Number of drug addiction related admissions to NHS hospitals of NHS and private patients by health authority of treatment, England 1998–99
Health authority Number of admissions
England 9,282
QA2 Hillingdon 43
QA3 Kensington Chelsea and Westminster 134
QA4 Enfield and Haringey 60
QA5 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 80
QA6 Bedfordshire 40

Number of drug addiction related admissions to NHS hospitals of NHS and private patients by health authority of treatment, England 1998–99
Health authority Number of admissions
QA7 Berkshire 42
QA8 Buckinghamshire 39
QA9 Cambridge and Huntingdon 187
QAA Bexley and Greenwich 55
QAC Bromley 455
QAD Croydon 4
QAE East Kent 44
QAF West Kent 116
QAG Kingston and Richmond 28
QAH Lambeth Southwark and Lewisham 45
QAJ Merton Sutton and Wandsworth 211
QAK East Surrey 29
QAL West Surrey 138
QAM East Sussex Brighton and Hove 150
QAN West Sussex 11
QAP Barking and Havering 29
QAQ Barnet 1
QAR Brent and Harrow 55
QAT Camden and Islington 132
QAV Ealing Hammersmith and Hounslow 175
QAW East London and The City 94
QAX North Essex 90
QAY South Essex 126
QC1 South Lancashire 57
QC2 Liverpool 316
QC3 Manchester 103
QC4 Morecambe Bay 55
QC5 St. Helens and Knowsley 51
QC6 Salford and Trafford 467
QC7 Sefton 73
QC8 Stockport 17
QC9 West Pennine 134
QCA East Norfolk 97
QCC Northamptonshire 33
QCD North West Anglia 36
QCE Oxfordshire 83
QCF Suffolk 53
QCG Barnsley 253
QCH North Derbyshire 24
QCJ South Derbyshire 49
QCK Doncaster 63
QCL Leicestershire 127
QCM Lincolnshire 142
QCN North Nottingamshire 45
QCP Nottingham 253
QCQ Rotherham 118
QCR Sheffield 168
QCT Bury and Rochdale 61
QCV North Cheshire 73
QCW South Cheshire 92
QCX East Lancashire 81
QCY North West Lancashire 68
QD1 North and Mid Hampshire 38
QD2 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 304
QD3 Southampton and South West Hampshire 44
QD4 Isle of Wight 33
QD5 Somerset 67
QD6 South and West Devon 97
QD7 Wiltshire 76
QD8 Avon 112
QD9 Birmingham 85
QDA Wigan and Bolton 111
QDC Wirral 150
QDD Bradford 51
QDE County Durham 96
QDF East Riding 37
QDG Gateshead and South Tyneside 49
QDH Leeds 68

Number of drug addiction related admissions to NHS hospitals of NHS and private patients by health authority of treatment, England 1998–99
Health authority Number of admissions
QDJ Newcastle and North Tyneside 110
QDK North Cumbria 48
QDL South Humber 46
QDM Northumberland 53
QDN Sunderland 59
QDP Tees 222
QDQ Wakefield 61
QDR North Yorkshire 43
QDT Calderdale and Kirlees 70
QDV Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 61
QDW Dorset 186
QDX North and East Devon 97
QDY Gloucestershire 122
QEA Coventry 86
QEC Dudley 59
QED Herefordshire 3
QEE Sandwell 2
QEF Shropshire 155
QEG Solihull 11
QEH North Staffordshire 139
QEJ South Staffordshire 174
QEK Walsall 43
QEL Warwickshire 60
QEM Wolverhampton 36
QEN Worcestershire 47
QEP East and North Hertfordshire 26
QEQ West Hertfordshire 40

Notes:

1. The data relate to admissions where the primary condition is shown as belonging to one of the following International Classification Diseases (ICD revision 10) diseases—Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of: opioids (F11); cannabinoids (F12), sedatives or hypnotics (F13); cocaine (F14); other stimulants, including caffeine (F15); hallucinogens (F16); volatile solvents (F18); multiple drug use and use of other psychoactive substances (F 19).

2. Data in this table are grossed for both coverage and unknown/ invalid clinical data.