§ Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in the Official Report the percentage of renal failure patients who were treated by dialysis in each of the regional health authorities in England in the last year for which statistics are available.
§ Mr. John PattenAccording to information supplied by the European Dialysis and Transplant Association, the percentage of renal patients receiving treatment by dialysis at 31 December 1982, the latest year for which reliable statistics are available, was as follows:
Percentage of renal patients receiving Region Haemodialysis Peritoneal Dialysis Total Northern 35.3 22.4 57.7 Yorkshire 50.1 17.2 67.3 Trent 54.5 16.7 71.2 East Anglian 39.6 1.9 41.5 North West Thames 43.7 8.1 51.8 North East Thames 40.1 17.8 57.9 South East Thames 36.3 8.7 45.0 South West Thames 32.5 30.2 62.7 Wessex 40.8 8.3 49.1 Oxford 34.5 14.1 48.6 South Western 49.9 14.2 64.1 West Midlands 41.1 12.4 53.5 Mersey 41.5 11.6 53.1 North Western 41.2 15.3 56.5