HC Deb 13 June 1986 vol 99 cc361-3W
Mrs. Ann Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will estimate the current total annual cost of providing mammographic units under the National Health Service.

Mr. Hayhoe

I regret that the information on which to make such an estimate is not collected centrally.

Mrs. Ann Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give a breakdown by health authority of the numbers of mammographic units which are available under the National Health Service.

Mr. Hayhoe

While information on the number of mammographic units is not collected routinely the following table sets out those districts which, as at January 1986. are understood to have mammographic machines which had been installed or upgraded since 1975.

Regional Health Authority District
Northern South Tees
North West Durham
South West Durham
Gateshead
Sunderland
Yorkshire Scunthorpe
Northallerton
Harrogate
Airedale
Huddersfield
Dewsbury
Leeds Weslern
York
Bradford
Hull
Grimsby
Trent Southern Derbyshire
Leicestershire
Bassetlaw
South Lincolnshire
Nottingham (3)
Rotherham
Sheffield
East Anglian Cambridge
Huntingdon
West Norfolk and Wisbech
West Suffolk
East Suffolk
South West Thames North West Surrey
West Surrey and North East
Hampshire
South West Surrey (2)
East Surrey
Mid-Downs (2)

Regional Health District
Authority
Worthing
Croydon
Wandsworth
North West Thames South Bedfordshire
North West Hertfordshire
Barnet
Harrow
Hounslow
Ealing
Riverside
Paddington
North East Thames Barking, Havering and Brentwood (2)
Bloomsbury
City and Hackney
Hampstead
Haringey
Islington
Mid Essex
Newham
Waltham Forest
West Essex
South East Thames Brighton
Bromley
Camberwell
Canterbury (2)
Dartford and Gravesham
Eastbourne
Maidstone
Medway
South East Kent (2)
West Lambeth
Wessex East Dorset
Portsmouth
Southampton
Winchester
Salisbury
Bath
Isle of Wight
Oxford East Berkshire
West Berkshire (2)
Aylesbury Vale
Wycombe
Milton Keynes
Oxford (2)
Northampton
South Western Bristol and Weston
Cheltenham
Cornwall
Gloucester
North Devon
Somerset
Torbay
West Midlands Bromsgrove and Redditch
South East Staffordshire
Worcester
North Staffordshire
Central Birmingham
South Birmingham
West Birmingham
Coventry
Dudley
Sandwell
Walsall
Wolverhampton
North Birmingham
Shropshire
South Warwickshire
Rugby

Regional Health Authority District
Mersey Southport and Formby
South Sefton (2)
Liverpool
Wirral (3)
Chester
Crewe
Warrington
North Western Blackburn
Burnley
West Lancashire
Wigan
Salford
South Manchester
Rochdale
Special Health Authorities
The Royal Marsden (3)

All districts shown have one machine except where otherwise indicated in parenthesis.

Mrs. Ann Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many health authorities currently have agreements with private health companies for the provision of mammography units; and what is the average cost to the National Health Service per patient visit of attending such units.

Mr. Hayhoe

I regret that this information is not collected centrally.