§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list for each year since 1974 how many inpatients were treated, how many day cases were treated, how many outpatient and emergency cases, how many geriatric inpatients, how many geriatric outpatients, how many courses of dental treatment and how many sight tests were given in the National Health Service.
§ Mr. John PattenThe requested information for England is given in the following table. The decrease in inpatient and day case activity in 1982 reflects the consequences of industrial action in the Health Service last year.
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1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 *1982 Geriatric inpatient discharges and deaths 189 199 221 226 238 239 264 280 297 Geriatric outpatient attendances 187 195 212 234 239 224 255 270 280 (b). General Dental Services Courses of dental treatment 24,641 25,904 26,277 26,972 27,105 27,165 28,614 29,036 †29,926 (c). General Ophthalmic Services Sight tests 7,066 7,420 7,713 7,419 7,850 8,113 8,318 8,443 †8,693 * provisional. † These figures are final.