§ Mr. Greville Jannerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what is the average cost per day for the care and maintenance of a terminal patient, in a bed for the acute sick, in a Leicester hospital;
(2) what is the average cost per day for the care and maintenance of a terminal patient, in a bed for the acute sick, in a London hospital;
(3) what is the average cost per day for the care and maintenance of a terminal patient, in a bed for the chronic sick, in a London hospital;
(4) what is the average cost per day for the care and maintenance of a terminal patient, in a bed for the chronic sick, in a Leicester hospital;
(5) what is the average cost per day for the care and maintenance of a terminal patient, in a welfare bed in a London hospital;
(6) what is the average cost per day for the care and maintenance of a terminal patient, in a welfare bed in a Leicester hospital.
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§ Mr. AlisonInformation in the form requested is not available; the cost of treatment of terminal patients in hospital is not separately identified.
§ Mr. Greville Jannerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what is the average cost per day for the care and maintenance of a terminal patient, under the care of the Local Authority Domiciliary Nursing Services in London;
(2) what is the average cost per day for the care and maintenance of a terminal patient under the care of the Local Authority Domiciliary Nursing Services in Leicester.
§ Mr. AlisonI regret that the information requested is not available. The average cost per visit of visits for all purposes by the Home Nursing Services in 1969–70 was 73p in London and 67p in Leicester.
§ Mr. Greville Jannerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what is the average charge per day for a terminal patient, paying for his care and maintenance in a London hospital;
(2) what is the average charge per day for a terminal patient, paying for his care and maintenance in a Leicester hospital.
§ Mr. AlisonThe daily charges to all private patients, including terminal patients, in single rooms in non-teaching hospitals in both Leicester and London are currently £10.70 in acute hospitals and £6.50 in hospitals for the chronic sick.
§ Mr. Greville Jannerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) how many terminal patients, who have been refused admission to a London hospital, have been admitted upon payment being made in each year from 1948 to 1970 inclusive;
(2) how many terminal patients, who have been refused admission to a Leicester hospital, have been admitted upon payment being made in each year from 1948 to 1970 inclusive;
(3) how many terminal patients, who have been discharged from a London hospital, have been re-admitted upon payment being made in each of the years from 1948 to 1970;
(4) how many terminal patients who have been discharged from a Leicester hospital, have been re-admitted upon pay- 450W ment being made in each of the years from 1948 to 1970.
§ Mr. AlisonThis information is not available.
§ Mr. Greville Jannerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what studies are currently being carried out under the auspices of the Department of Social Services into the care and treatment of terminal patients; where such studies are being carried out and by whom; who is financing such studies; and when such studies will be completed.
§ Mr. AlisonCurrent studies in the problems of terminal illness are being carried out under sponsorship by my Department at:
- (i) St. Christopher's Hospice, London, S.E.26, where a research clinic was established in 1967 with financial support for capital and running costs. The Hospice is carrying out a programme of studies, investigating problems of pain and its control, patterns of terminal care and attitudes to it, problems of bereaved families and the development of an experimental domiciliary service to assist general practitioners in the care of patients in their own homes.
- This is a continuing programme of research but results are appearing in professional publications.
- (ii) The Institute for Social Studies in Medical Care, Director Dr. Ann Cartwright. A study of "Life before death" was commissioned in 1967, and a report on the main study is expected this year.
- (iii) The Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Sheffield. A study of care in terminal illness is being planned within a programme of medical research directed by Professor Knowelden.