HC Deb 19 January 1987 vol 108 cc420-2W
Mr. Gareth Wardell

asked the Secretary of State for Wales what were the number of beds for the treatment of mental illness in Wales in (a) 1972, (b) 1982 and (c) the latest available year for (i) general hospitals, (ii) mental hospitals and (iii) other residential facilities.

Mr. Mark Robinson

Information on the numbers of beds and places available for the treatment of mental illness in Wales is given in the following table:

since 1974–75 in cash terms and adjusted by the gross domestic product deflator and National Health Service pay and prices index.

Mark Robinson

The information is given in the following tables:

Total NHS Gross Expenditure
£ million
Year Cash (1) Adjusted to 1985–86 prices by GDP deflator (2) Adjusted to 1985–86 prices by NHS pay and prices index (3)
1974–75 206.9 699.8 760.8
1975–76 278.0 748.2 796.5
1976–77 312.2 742.3 792.1
1977–78 353.2 737.4 818.4
1978–79 405.0 764.0 845.6
1979–80 474.7 766.3 828.8
1980–81 611.7 832.3 840.5
1981–82 697.5 863.9 879.5
1982–83 769.0 888.2 902.0
1983–84 816.1 902.1 911.6
1984–85 882.6 935.6 931.1
1985–86 941.7 941.7 941.7

Gross Revenue Expenditure on Hospital and Community Health Services
£ million
Year Cash (1) Adjusted to 1985–86 prices by GDP deflator (2) Adjusted to 1985–86 prices by HCHS pay and prices index (3)
1974–75 141.0 476.9 511.4
1975–76 187.9 505.7 528.9
1976–77 214.8 510.8 531.4
1977–78 241.8 504.8 550.6
1978–79 274.5 517.8 570.4
1979–80 326.6 527.2 563.1
1980–81 424.9 578.2 572.3
1981–82 478.7 592.9 596.5
1982–83 516.9 597.0 604.8
1983–84 544.1 601.4 605.6
1984–85 584.9 620.0 615.3
1985–86 624.8 624.8 624.8

1985 1986 1985–86
1st Quarter 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter 4th Quarter 1st Quarter 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter
Prescriptions dispensed 6,923,853 6,160,580 6,293,921 6,792,709 6,525,800 6,544,984 6,574,943 25,773,010
Per cent. Prescriptions exempt from charges 84.6 85.9 85.6 85.9 85.9 86.5 86.4 85.8
a. Payments by Patients (excluding pre-payment certificates) £ million 1.6 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.9 6.9
b. Payments from Public Funds(c-a) £ million 28.4 26.4 27.6 29.4 28.7 29.7 30.3 112.1
c. Total costs £ million 30.0 28.1 29.3 31.2 30.5 31.5 32.2 119.0
d. Average cost per prescription (gross) £ 4.33 4.56 4.65 4.59 4.67 4.81 4.90 4.62
No. and type of pre-payment certificates
—4 monthly 5,789 3,972 4,825 4,974 5,703 4,716 5,306 19,474
—12 monthly 14,023 5,455 5,909 6,179 11,851 5,645 5,576 29,394
Revenue from sale of pre-payment certificates
—4 monthly 49,209 43,689 53,083 54,714 62,740 56,589 63,664 214,226
—12 monthly 336,553 166,370 180,201 188,460 361,446 189,117 186,801 896,477
Total 385,762 210,059 233,284 243,174 424,186 245,706 250,465 1,110,703

Note: The figure for Public Funds does not include pre-payment certificate income (shown separately in the above table) as this cannot be exactly attributed to the financial quarter in which certificates are purchased.

Gross Capital Expenditure on Hospital and Community Health Service
£ million
Year Cash (1) Adjusted to 1985–86 prices by GDP deflator (2) Adjusted to 1985–86 prices by HCHS pay and prices index (3)
1974–75 15.3 51.7 50.5
1975–76 23.1 62.2 58.4
1976–77 18.0 42.8 40.6
1977–78 21.1 44.1 41.7
1978–79 23.7 44.7 41.9
1979–80 24.3 39.2 35.6
1980–81 31.6 43.0 36.7
1981–82 41.4 51.3 46.6
1982–83 47.1 54.4 52.2
1983–84 49.8 55.0 54.3
1984–85 52.5 55.7 55.2
1985–86 54.7 54.7 54.7

Gross NHS expenditure includes income from sales of surplus land and property. No separate NHS pay and price factors are maintained for Wales. The figures at column 3 have been constructed using pay and price indices maintained for England by the Department of Health and Social Security.