§ Mrs. Dunwoodyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the present capacity of all National Health Service hospitals in dialysis machines, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis units and home dialysis machines; and what is the current total number of people in need of treatment for end stage renal failure.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergInformation is not available in the form requested. Returns collected by the European Dialysis and Transplant Association indicate that on 31 December 1981, the latest date for which information is available, 1,054 patients in England were being treated by hospital haemodialysis; 1,780 by home haemodialysis and 651 by continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. It is estimated that 45 new patients per million total population develop potentially treatable end stage renal failure each year. This gives an approximate total of 2,100 new patients in England needing to start treatment each year, in addition to those whose treatment is continuing.