§ Mr. Norman Atkinsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what information is available in his Department as to the level of expenditure per head of population on health services for each area within the North-East Thames regional health authority.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinThe annual accounts submitted by health authorities to the Department do not contain information on this basis. Information that can be derived from the accounts is necessarily limited by the availability of separately identifiable detail, and is subject to the acceptability of the cost of extracting and presenting it in the required form.
Subject to a number of reservations, as indicated in the notes below, expenditure per head of population on health services for each area within the North-East Thames regional health authority, assessed on the basis of figures extracted from the annual accounts for 1978–79, was as follows:
NHS EXPENDITURE PER HEAD OF POPULATION FOR AREAS WITHIN THE NORTH EAST THAMES REGION AREA HEALTH AUTHORITY 1978–79 £ Essex 107 Barking and Havering 118 Camden and Islington (T) 277 City and East London (T) 202 Enfield and Haringey 111 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 142 NOTES
1. "T" denotes an area health authority (teaching) and the relative expenditure figures are influenced by additional expenditure on the provision of facilities for the clinical teaching of medical and dental students.
94W2. The payment of London weighting to certain staff also affects the figures.
3. Expenditure figures used have been taken from the annual accounts of the health authorities in the region. Capital expenditure included in the accounts of the regional health authority which is identified as appropriate to a specified area has been included in the expenditure per head of the population of that area.
Other regional expenditure not so included amounts to an average of £4.00 per head of the population of the region as a whole.
4. Family practitioner services for Enfield and Haringey area health authority are provided by Brent and Harrow area health authority (north-West Thames region) which also serves three other areas in that region. The figures for Enfield and Haringey area health authority include an estimate for family practitioner services expenditure calculated on the relevant proportion of the total population of the areas involved in this arrangement.
5. The population figures used are the midyear estimates of resident population, which make no allowance for people resident in one area who receive treatment in another, or for the differences in morbidity and age/sex structure of particular populations.