§ Mr. Marlowasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what has been the expenditure per head on the National Health Service for each of the last 20 years at constant prices; and what has been the cost at constant prices per hospital patient.
§ Sir George YoungThe information requested has been derived from the expenditure tables E6, E7 and E9 of the 1979 report of the Royal Commission on the National Health Service (Cmnd 7615). Table 1 sets out for the years 1958–77 health expenditure per head of total United Kingdom population; table 2 shows hospital revenue expenditure per inpatient for Great Britain since United Kingdom figures are not readily available.
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TABLE 1 PER CAPITA* PUBLIC EXPENDITURE ON THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (UNITED KINGDOM) AT CONSTANT (1970) PRICES £ 1958 26.3 1959 27.2 1960 27.9 1961 28.0 1962 28.5 1963 29.1 1964 30.3 1965 31.5 1966 32.7 1967 34.1 1968 35.5 1969 34.8 1970 36.3 1971 37.1 1972 38.4 1973 39.9 1974 40.7 1975 43.6 1976 44.4 1977 44.8 * Annual Abstract of Statistics (population figures)
TABLE 2 HOSPITAL REVENUE COST PER IN PATIENT* GREAT BRITAIN AT CONSTANT (1970) PRICES† £ 1958 179.7 1959 180.6 1960 181.1 1961 175.6 1962 178.3 1963 174.9 1964 175.1 1965 176.0 1966 180.9 1967 180.9 1968 183.1 1969 185.7 1970 198.4 1971 200.2 1972 203.0 1973 217.8 1974 253.7 1975 284.0 1976 266.4 1977 270.0 * Deaths and discharges in all types of hospitals as shown in Scottish Health Department Statistics and Health and Personal Social Services Statistics. † Hospital and community health service revenue from 1974.