§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list those statistics which were collected by or for his Department on health and social services matters which are no longer collected as a result of Rayner exercises in Government Departments, health authorities or family practitioners' committees.
§ Mr. Whitney[pursuant to his reply, 15 January 1986, c. 603]: The Department keeps the content of statistical
Item Recommendation Number* Comments NHS non-medical manpower Census returns of students in the professions supplementary to medicine 15 The distinction between community health and school health nurses, in the annual returns of primary health care nursing and midwifery staff (SBH2(c)) 16 The annual returns of student radiographers by training school (SBH153);the annual returns of teaching staff and students at schools of physiotherapy (SBH154); the annual return of nurses receiving the geriatric lead payment (SBH155), and the annual regional summary census of nursing and midwifery staff (SBH210) 17 NHS medical and dental manpower The returns on 'joiners and leavers'-both annual (SBH55) and monthly (SBH57) 23 NHS hospital and community health services Mid-year hospital activity return (SBHI) 33 More detailed information continues to be collected on an annual basis on Form SH3 Quarterly return of sexually transmitted diseases (SBH60) 34 Now an annual return Census of government owned road vehicles (SBH3) 36 The census was for Department of Transport Part 2 of return on private patients in NHS hospitals by specialty and admitting consultants (SBH211) 38 Part 1 of return continues unchanged. (Total beds, discharges, attendances) Part of return on school and child guidance clinics dealing with facilities (20M) 40 Whole return discontinued Personal social services Return SSDA103 and parts of return SSDA107 giving 59 (i) stastistics on mentally handicapped and mentally ill persons (a) admitted to local authority homes and hostels during the year; (b) resident in voluntary and private homes and hostels during year (ii) detailed information on residential places available for mentally handicapped and mentally ill persons Return on homes and hostels for drug addicts and alcoholics (SSDA111) 60 Part of return SSDA512 giving statistics on: 61 (i) days adult training centres and day centres normally open; (ii) mentally handicapped persons regularly attending adult training centres and detailed information on places available Part of return on local authority day nurseries opened or closed during the year (SSDA503) 62 Part of return giving detailed statistics on the meals services provided for the elderly and/or physically handicapped by various voluntary organisations and the local authority (SSDA302) 63 Returns on households visited by home helps (SSDA303) 64 Part of return on persons removed from partially sighted register (SSDA902) 66 Information on registered handicapped persons is now collected triennially rather than annually Parts of returns SSDA104 and SSDA108 giving 68 (i) detailed information about places, staffing and financial support of children in community homes with education on premises; (ii) information on community homes other than those with education on premises or assessment centres Part of returns on adoption (SSDA907) and adoption orders (SSDA907B) 70 SSDA907 has now been discontinued in favour of a new return which is completed in the course of the adoption process and analysed by OPCS Return on financial assistance to children towards expenses of maintenance, education and training (SSDA905) 71 * The numbers are those of recommendations in the Review of Government Statistical Services—report of the DHSS study team.
348Wreturns under continuous review and always seeks to end collection of statistics no longer necessary. Statistical returns on health and personal social services whose collection ceased specifically as a result of the report of the DHSS study team in the review of government statistical services are shown in the table. No central data collection has ceased as a result of other Rayner-type efficiency reviews in this field.
A number of recommendations on health statistics in the DHSS study team's report were overtaken by the reports of the health services information steering group, which were published between 1982 and 1985 and are due to be implemented in two phases, on 1 April 1987 and 1 April 1988.