§ Mr. Goodladasked 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 for (a) the United Kingdom, (b) the Mersey region, (c) the Cheshire area health authority and (d) the Crewe health district.
§ 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 Mersey regional health authority, £120
- (c) for the Cheshire area health authority, £107.
I regret that it is not possible to provide meaningful figures of this nature for a health district.
Notes
1. The national figure is affected by the payment of London weighting allowance to some staff and by the incidence of additional expenditure on the provision of facilities for the clinical teaching of medical and dental students which also applies to the figure for the Mersey regional health authority in so far as it includes expenditure of the Liverpool area health authority(T). The United Kingdom figure includes the expenditure of the 12 preserved boards of governors of postgraduate teaching hospitals in London.
2. The population figures used take no account of people who are provided with 66W treatment outside their area of residence, nor are they adjusted for differences in the morbidity and age /sex structures of the relative populations.
3. The figure for the Cheshire area health authority includes the cost of services provided by the Mersey regional health authority—for example, blood transfusion, mass miniature radiography services, some capital work, and so on. The cost of these services amounted to £1.83 per head of population.