§ Miss Boothroydasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the latest figure for the amount of investment per head of population in the National Health Service (a) for the United Kingdom, (b) for the West Midland region, (c) for the southern regions, and (d) for the Sandwell area health authority.
§ Mr. Moyle:Capital and revenue expenditure per head of population in the National Health Service in 1977–78 was as follows:
- (a) for the United Kingdom—£120.
- (b) for the West Midlands regional health authority—£ 102.
- (c) for the southern regions—£121.
- (d) for the Sandwell area health authority— £71.
NOTES
1. The southern regions include North-West Thames, North-East Thames, South-East Thames, South-West Thames, Wessex, Oxford and South-Western regional health authorities.
2. The national and southern region figures are affected by the payment of London weighting allowance to some staff and by the incidence of additional expenditure in the provision of facilities for the clinical teaching of medical and dental students, which also applies to the figure for the West Midlands regional health authority in so far as it includes expenditure of Birmingham area health authority (T). The United Kingdom figure includes the expenditure of the 12 preserved boards of governors of postgraduate teaching hospitals in London.
3. The population figures used take no account of people who are provided with treatment outside their area of residence, nor are they adjusted for differences in the morbidity and age/sex structures of the relative populations.
619W4. The figure for the Sandwell area health authority includes the cost of services provided by the West Midlands regional health authority, for example, ambulance, blood transfusion, mass miniature radiography services, and so on. The cost of these services amounts to £4 per head of population.