§ Sir Bernard Braineasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many patients with end renal failure were being treated by dialysis and/or transplantation by each of the regional health authorities in England and Wales on 1 December 1981, 1 December 1982 and on 1 June 1983; and what proportion these figures represent per million of population served by each authority.
§ Mr. John PattenThe latest figures available from the European Dialysis and Transplantation Association are for 31 December 1981 and are as follows:
Region Patients on all forms of dialysis Patients with functioning transplant Number Per million population Number Per million population Northern 308 99 232 75 Yorkshire 242 67 139 39 Trent 467 104 175 39 East Anglian 156 82 204 107 North West Thames 248 71 291 83 North East Thames 476 128 341 92 South East Thames* 376 107 486 139 South West Thames* 76 25 35 12 Wessex 140 52 113 42 Oxford 183 79 179 78 South Western 214 71 111 37 West Midlands 279 54 271 52 Mersey 165 69 133 55 North Western 238 59 172 43 * Patients from the South West Thames region are also treated in units in South East Thames. There are some patients for whom the method of treatment is not recorded, and these have been omitted.